[cvsnt] Calling CVSNT from inside an application

Torsten Martinsen torsten at tiscali.dk
Thu Mar 18 19:52:12 GMT 2004


Nicholas Geti wrote:

>I program in Microsoft Visual Foxpro and would like to call CVSNT from
>inside an application to automate a data base backup process without having
>to store a complete copy of the database everytime.
>
>Foxpro only recognizes programs that have been enabled for automation in
>Windows or for OLE. How would I access CVSNT on the server from a client PC?
>
This is a long shot, but theoretically, since TortoiseCVS is an Explorer 
shell extension, the commands it provides are also DDE verbs. This might 
mean that is is possible to call TortoiseCVS from Foxpro, but I have no 
idea how you would do it in practice.

-Torsten



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