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How to run DOS commands in Robot

Question & Answer


Question

How can you run DOS commands in IBM Rational Robot?

Answer

DOS commands can be called in the Shell statement in SQABasic and Robot can run the shell script afterwards.

This example runs Notepad in maximized format:

Sub main
Shell "Notepad.exe",3
InputKeys "Hello, world.{enter}Notepad is maximized."
End Sub


Any MS-DOS command can be performed using the Shell statement.

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Historical Number

22221

Document Information

More support for:
Rational Robot

Software version:
2003.06.00, 2003.06.10, 2003.06.12, 2003.06.13, 2003.06.14, 2003.06.15, 2003.06.16, 7.0, 7.0.0.1, 7.0.0.2, 7.0.1, 7.0.1.1, 7.0.1.2, 7.0.1.3, 7.0.2

Operating system(s):
Windows

Document number:
326217

Modified date:
16 June 2018

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