That depends on your view of "best", but I think the following might work: system("del /q/s a:\\*"); Maybe you need to expand the environment variable ComSpec (case is unimportant) and prepend it to the command.

String resources are weird. Strings are stored in blocks of 16. IDs 0-15 are block 0, 16-31 are block 1, etc. So block# == ID >> 4. Use the block # to load the resource (with Find/Load/LockResource APIs). Once you get the block loaded, the format of the block should be obvious (Unicode strings, length-prefixed). --Mike-- Just released - RightClick-Encrypt - Adds fast & easy file encryption to Explorer Like the Google toolbar? Then check out UltraBar, with more features & customizable search engines! My really out-of-date homepage Sonork-100.19012 Acid_Helm

Sameer Maggon wrote: Do we have a method by which we can declare an array of 16 bytes whose offset remains the same whenever the program is compiled.. I seriously doubt whether that's possible! Of course I could be wrong too. By the way why would you want to do that? Perhaps there are other solutions to your problem Nish Author of the romantic comedy Summer Love and Some more Cricket [New Win] Buy it, read it and admire me :-)

Well, you shoud configure one of the machines (and only one) as a RAS Server. Launch the explorer, go to the Dial-up folder and you'll find a link to the RAS Server configuration dialog in the "Connections" menu. Once you're done with this, the client app should initiate a RAS connection with RasDial and all that stuff (you can do it non-programmatically, of course). When the connection is established, both programs can communicate with TCP/IP using the regular Winsock procedures. Joaquín M López Muñoz Telefónica, Investigación y Desarrollo

and if your server speaks HTTP (default listening port is 80), you do not even need to write a client. :)

Hi, Can you suggest some site or example. Actually i have a TCP/IP application, but my two computers just have a modem (USB), so i want that one dials into other and then the application starts.. Please suggest Thanx Sameer

If you can't use a floppy disk for some reason, set one modem to receive and use the other to send. You'll need some kind of communications software as well. You could also email the file from one machine to the other if both have access to email accounts. Without more info about your hardware, OS, size of binary data, etc., it is difficult to give a complete answer.

Which OS? If just 2000 then you'll be better off using TAPI3, if you want to run on the dreaded 9x machines then you'll be stuck with TAPI2. The platform SDK has plenty of decent TAPI examples, but there are very few decent TAPI sites on the web. http://www.sellsbrothers.com/writing/telprog/ should be a starting point as it has a few links that will be useful. The Microsoft TAPI newsgroups are probably your best bet for getting questions answered. My TAPI experience is more with real telephone systems rather than data transfer. Michael :-)

I do something similar (return binary data in a safe array) in my COM Mailslots article. The code in question is: STDMETHODIMP CMailslotData::Read(VARIANT *ppResults) { if (!ppResults) { return E_POINTER; } return CreateSafeArray(m_pData, m_length, ppResults); } where m_pData points to the bytes of data and m_length is the number of bytes we have. HRESULT CreateSafeArray( BYTE *pData, DWORD dataLength, VARIANT *ppResults) { SAFEARRAYBOUND sab; sab.cElements = dataLength; sab.lLbound = 0; SAFEARRAY *pSa = SafeArrayCreateEx(VT_UI1, 1, &sab, 0); PVOID pvData; HRESULT hr = SafeArrayAccessData(pSa, &pvData); if (SUCCEEDED(hr)) { ::CopyMemory(pvData, pData, dataLength); hr = ::SafeArrayUnaccessData(pSa); } if (SUCCEEDED(hr)) { ::VariantInit(ppResults); (\*ppResults).parray = pSa; (\*ppResults).vt = VT\_ARRAY | VT\_UI1; } return hr; } Hope this helps. Len Holgate www.jetbyte.com The right code, right now.

Thanx but actually i'll tell you the whole story... I have a pogram that takes offset as an input and write 16 bytes of data (character) to the .exe file (like we do in HexDump or neother thing). So now i want that whenever i compile my .exe the 16 bytes are free at the same offset, so that i can write my own data there. like if i define char array[16]; So i have to write on this 16 byte Manually what i am doing is, i am assigning some value to this 16 byte initially and when the program is compiled, i open up my HEX editor and search for this string and write what i want to write. So, did you understand what i mean, and is this possible Thanx again Sameer

If you're outputting synthetic images (chart diagrams, simple icons), then PNG is fine. For all other things, specially photographies, JPEG is a much better choice. Joaquín M López Muñoz Telefónica, Investigación y Desarrollo

Sameer Maggon wrote: but how can B wait till A exits, B should call WaitForSingleObject on A's process handle which A should pass to B Nish Regards, Nish Native CPian. Born and brought up on CP. With the CP blood in him.

You can use Response.BinaryWrite if you have the data of image. Remember to set up the header of the page to apropriate content-type Philip Patrick Web-site: www.stpworks.com "Two beer or not two beer?" Shakesbeer Need Web-based database administrator? You already have it!

Joaquín M López Muñoz wrote: I guess you're not linking the C run-time library How do i Link with C run-time Library

The first idea that comes to mind is to create a user control that reads the file into memory and outputs it to the buffer. There are a couple of examples around here.

Hi, Thanx for the reply. Actually I want to pass a string as a paramter from my ASP code (in the ACTIVEX-ATL component) and in the component I am using the parameter as a string for some purpose where I want a char * type What should i do Sameer

See this article. /ravi "There is always one more bug..." http://www.ravib.com ravib@ravib.com

There is no direct support from the OS on systems like winnt and 95. You have to go thru owner drawn menus.