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Can't say what the US market is like, but here in the UK (I am also a 10 year bloke) the trend is for offshoring so unless you start learning Punjabi/Thai or Mandarin, your technical skills will be usurped by younger and very much cheaper 'dime a dozen' overseas coders. The only thing I have...

Hi Ouch We finally got this one resolved. The error turnoed out to be a -2147417843 (an automation error). It turns out that out core system written in C++ wasn't allowing the CreateObjecvt to work in the same thread. The original developer (who had disappeared for a months holiday in...

No, this is the same script running on the same machine, just being called via different processes - one works and one doesn't. I was wondering if there was some sort of limitation of VBScript and if there are limitations imposed on the objects that can be created by some applications.

I am having a problem running script that basically uses CreateObject("Word.Application") to stream an RTF file from my temp directory, change the current default printer for that word application to one sent in as a parm. So it is treamed directly to printer device sitting on our network. The...

if you want to know what is using up your CPU, just WRKACTJOB and then move your cursor over to the CPU column and press F4, this will sort the column in descending order, with the process using the most CPU at the top. You can see more detailed CPU info by pressing F11. OK, its not great but...

Applying UML and Patterns by Craig Larman ISBN 0-13-748880-7 [hammer]

Greetings all Is there a method or function within VBScript that allows me to execute a dos batch file? Cheers HTH pipk [hammer]

Greetings all. Just a quick question. Is there a function or API that allows me to execute a .bat file from within a Visual C++ program? And will it take a path decsription as an argument? HTH Cheers pipk[hammer]

you would need to use a java bean variant

Is this an AS400 based program right? If so check your job log, you may find it is simply the fact that you are missing the correct library for this file from your library list.

M$ are sneaky and have introduced a series of check boxes to your hotmail profile that basically gives them carte balnch to distribute your mail to whomever they wish. You can find out what these are by doing the following: *** signing into your account. click "options" (it is to the...

microsoft bundles a spreadsheet activex control with windows - you can use it by loading it with a text file (can use csv formats) - don't know if that is any help but also there are some other office type controls that might be of help, one of which creates charts.

try looking for a file called sql.log somewhere on your harddrive.

how are you downloading this file? is there any translation going on to take it from ebcdic to ascii ?? if so can't you just get the translation to transform the field into a usable format? I must admit my experience with creating flat files from mainframes is that usually there is a program...

I find java tends to perform poorly in terms of painting the screen when you don't have enough RAM. I would recommend at least 256meg if you can get it. However, before splashing out on more memory, paste your code here and everyone can take a look at it - it could be just a repaint issue.