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Beyond FTP Script
Editor - Run/Run_Async Command
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The Run and Run_Async commands are identical except that
distribution processing continues as soon as the Run_Async command is
executed. The Timeout parameter applies only to Run. The Executable File
Name is required, and must identify a file that is locally accessible.
Programs may not be run on or from remote servers. Commas are used to
separate the various fields in the script. Should a comma be part of the
executable name or a parameter, the entire field must be included within
quotes (“).
These commands will execute any class of file that can be run from the
Windows Start menu. This includes BAT files and PIF files as well as all
manner of EXE files. Beyond FTP will also process file associations. For
example, running a file with the suffix .Doc will cause Beyond FTP to
execute the word processor with the file as a parameter.
On a Windows NT/2000/XP system, the application actually runs in the Beyond
FTP security context (see Changing Startup Security On Windows NT/2000) and
not the user session that belongs to the desktop. If the application depends
on the desktop user’s NT Account information, it will fail when executed
from Beyond FTP. This is especially important when you are running PGP to
encrypt or decrypt a file.
The application must not request user input. Should this occur, the
application will appear to be “stuck” and will remain this way until the Run
Command Timeout is reached or the script is canceled. For a Run_Async
command, the application will remain stuck until the machine is rebooted.
Wildcards may be included in the Run command. This includes the Remote
Server wildcard (%RN), allowing Beyond FTP to vary the execution depending
on which server is being managed. This is permissible only when the Run
action is included in a conditional with an Each_Server scope.
The file expansion wildcard “%<” causes the Run command to be replicated for
each file in the expansion list. The run actions are then executed
individually. This allows you to process lists of files using programs that
do not perform their own file expansions. The same thing can be accomplished
using the While command.
Example:
:Run: C:\Beyond
FTP\Wft32.exe,c:\apt\scripts\getdb.isf /Q,c:\Beyond FTP, 5
:Run_Async: c:\bin\loaddb.exe, %<c:\incoming\*.dat>,c:\incoming
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