Command Line through Access

[Forbes]

I am curious, is there a way to:

A) Run cmd Prompt scripts on a form (with the command Prompt window not displaying) but instead....


B) Echo the results into a text box?

[ranman256]

Access is a GUI.
command lines went out in the 90s.

[Forbes]

No offense but as a Linux server admin I disagree respectively of course . I am aware that a Form presents a Graphical Interface, but I am in need of this information regardless.

[jwhite]

What you are looking for is not supported in MS-Access.

[Forbes]

Shell "cmd /c > echo [txtbox]"

[jwhite]

Well, of course you can shell out from Access, nothing new there; you want to update a text box on an open form from outside of MS-Access. Totally different animal, and can't be done from a third party application. It may be remotely possible to do it from another MS-Access database.

[Forbes]

What I did was used Batch as string then the print option to create the batch file with the commands I want which then "Echo" to name.txt then the text box echos the results in the text file, once the DB is closed the text files are deleted.