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shell problems from vb4(32) to MS dos

I have a program in vb4 (32)( win 95) that needs some tweeking. I have a file (144000 bites) compressed in win 31 to be self extracting on a 3.5 disk in a 'A drive'. A call from the program (vb4 32 win 95) copies this file to a new directory on the 'C drive' ok so far.
now the trouble. In the program I shell to this newly created directory to unpack the compressed exe file. I use the code... shell("c:/done/fill.exe",1)... to see what is happening. The MS Dos window opens and I see the file unpacking. BUT WHEN I GO TO THE DIRECTORY... only the fill.exe is there. I shut OFF the puter and reboot and STILL there are NO FILES other than the fill.exe WHAT AM I DOING WRONG help help......please

waty

you are doing nothing wrong. I think the problem is in the unpacker. I think you need to specify a path.

PSV

its see everything fine. Your files are unzipped in some other directory (most probabaly \temp or \tmp) . If U know the name of
any extracted file use FIND to check where it is unzipped.

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rayford

fyi By the way you should be able to view contents of a Self extracting EXE the same as you would a ZIP file such as PKZIP -v FILL.EXE and you should also be able to specify certain files to be extracted last time I tried I'm sure it allowed stuff like
shell("c:/done/fill.exe c:\done *.prg",1)
which would be like PKUNZIP fill.zip c:\done *.prg
to ONLY extract the PRG files in the archive.. handy tips!

hjaycox

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please give PSV 25 points with his (her) ans and rayfords I got it and understand what was going on. thanks