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3 Replies Last post: Jun 1, 2009 7:58 AM by dpeterson  

launch MS access with runtime options posted: May 29, 2009 5:30 AM

Click to view dpeterson's profile Novice 7 posts since
May 25, 2006

I am trying to virtualize a few older access applications we run. These applications are complied into MDEs but use the Access 97 runtime that gets installed with the application. I tried to thinapp one of these applications and it picks up the access executable but not the MDE file. How can I pass an option to access.exe to open the MDE file? From a command prompt I can just specify the name of the mde file after the access executable. I tried editing the package.ini file and added the name of the mde file after access.exe on the source line, then I built the package. That did not work. Has anyone else done something like this?

Thanks

Re: launch MS access with runtime options

2. May 31, 2009 2:03 PM in response to: dpeterson
Click to view Thinstall2's profile Enthusiast 44 posts since
Jul 29, 2008
Simple
You just add an
CommandLine="path/to/msaccess.exe "path/to/mde/or/mdb"
below your Source-line.
be careful with the quotationmarks though :-)

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