System Exec.vi - doesn't work in some cases

Monday, February 16, 2009

That was small discussion on NI Forum about SystemExec.vi.

What we have found is following:

This construction will not  fork for fc.exe:

But this one seems to be OK:

The only difference, that standard input is connected (and doesn't matter which string entered - its just should be not empty).
This also may be helpful in sutuations when *.bat file called from SystemExec.vi

Original discussion here.