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<DIV>better late than never..</DIV>
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<DIV>heres some html code which will run without a server..just save it to a file and open it up in Internet Explorer.</DIV>
<DIV>when you click the button on the form, it will run a dos command, on the local machine.</DIV>
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<DIV>Its a simple way to create a cheap interface to dos commands, for non techy end users.</DIV>
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<DIV>requires activestate perl win32. with PerlScript.</DIV>
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<DIV><HTML></DIV>
<DIV><HEAD></DIV>
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<DIV><SCRIPT LANGUAGE="PerlScript"></DIV>
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<DIV>sub yourSystem($)</DIV>
<DIV>{</DIV>
<DIV> my $command = shift;</DIV>
<DIV> system($command);</DIV>
<DIV>}</DIV>
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<DIV></SCRIPT></DIV>
<DIV></HEAD></DIV>
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<DIV><BODY></DIV>
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<DIV><form name="blah"></DIV>
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<DIV><INPUT type="button" VALUE="some description" ONCLICK=yourSystem('dir')></DIV>
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<DIV></form></DIV>
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<DIV></BODY></DIV>
<DIV></HTML></DIV></BODY></HTML>