hi
i wrote this piece of code

Private Sub CommandButton1_Click()
Dim ReturnValue
ReturnValue = Shell("c:\windows\system32\telnet", 1) ' Run
Calculator.
For t = 1 To 10000000
Next t
Application.SendKeys "open"
Application.SendKeys ("{Enter}")
End Sub

When i click, the telnet program opens and all i get was

Welcome to Microsoft Telnet Client

Escape Character is 'CTRL+]'

Microsoft Telnet

but did not see "open"
how should sendkeys be done in this case??
thanks

Dont't use Application.SendKeys, since it then sends the keystrokes to the
Application (Excel). Instead, just use SendKeys - and to make sure you send
them to Telnet, use AppActivate "Telnet" first; e.g:

AppActivate "Telnet" (see note below)
SendKeys "open{ENTER}"

The AppActivate argument should match exactly the windows title (title bar
text) of your telnet app, I just don't know what that is.

One thing: in odd cases, another app may grab control of windows between
your AppActivate and SendKeys statements, making the keys go to the wrong
app. For example, I have had Groupwise notifications pop up at the wrong
time and steal focus from the app I want to send keys to. So be careful!

Another note: In your timing loop, it is good to put DoEvents to allow
Windows to do some processing tasks while the loop runs, otherwise you might
freeze things up for a while - and I prefer to use a timed loop instead of
looping to some number, e.g. for a 10 second delay:

QuitTime = Now()+ TimeValue("00:00:10")
While QuitTime = Now()
DoEvents
Wend


"mike" wrote:

hi
i wrote this piece of code

Private Sub CommandButton1_Click()
Dim ReturnValue
ReturnValue = Shell("c:\windows\system32\telnet", 1) ' Run
Calculator.
For t = 1 To 10000000
Next t
Application.SendKeys "open"
Application.SendKeys ("{Enter}")
End Sub

When i click, the telnet program opens and all i get was

Welcome to Microsoft Telnet Client

Escape Character is 'CTRL+]'

Microsoft Telnet

but did not see "open"
how should sendkeys be done in this case??
thanks