Miraplacid Scripting Components Manual

To create component, use following constructions

• JScript: var obj = Server.CreateObject("Miraplacid.MSCExec");
  
• VBScript: set obj = Server.CreateObject("Miraplacid.MSCExec")
  
  

Note: Component designed for Apartment threading model. Therefore, the best scope of their using is ASP page level scope.
Using components of version 1.1 in Application and Session scopes may cause problems with your ASP Server (IIS or Chili) productivity.
To learn more about ASP execution scopes, see your ASP Server manual.

Method	Parameters	Return Value	Description
System	String cmd	Long	Call OS command specified by cmd and return system return value.
Execute	String cmd	String	Launch a specified application with parameters provided. Return a string with stdout and stderr values. Command line with path to application and parameters provided in cmd.
ExecuteEx	String cmd, String in	MSCExecResult	Extended application call. Command line with path to application and parameters provided in cmd. Parameter in allow you to specify data that will be enterpreted as stdin source.

Component MSCExecResult is used for storing ExecuteEx method results (MSCExec object). It has 3 methods to access data from stdout, stderr and program exit code.

Property	Type	Description
Stdout	String	Get data from program's stdout
Stderr	String	Get data from program's stderr
RetVal	Long	Get program exit code

1. For OS Linux the Component always use system function "system". For Windows platforms method System use "system" function call from standard C library, other methods use function _spawn.
2. Command line style should be adjusted to OS. For Windows file name and path could contain space characters. In this case they should be enclosed in quotation marks.
3. This component could be unsafe. Do not let your Web site visitors specify an OS command or application to run!
4. This component doesn't work under Personal Web Server on Win9x.