undocumented command line parameters

[david epsom dot com dot au]

Just noticed that the (unknown) QZS and ZSQ command-line parameters from A97
have been replaced with the (equally unknown) QZX and ZXQ command-line
parameters in A2K.

FWIW, also found that Access is passed the EMBEDDING parameter when you
create an OLE application object. You can do this from a command line: if
you pass -EMBEDDING then the access instance that you create is not visible,
and is not expecting user input. (well no, that is NOT very useful, but....)
Mildly irritating that it uses -EMBEDDING instead of /EMBEDDING: if you try
/user Fred, you get FRED -EMBEDDING as the user... This seems to be
different from A97: A97 had the same EMBEDDING command line parameter, but
it never appeared mixed in with other command line parameters: perhaps A97
handled mixed parameter delimiters better than A2K does.

(david)


A2K:
RO,X,CMD,EMBEDDING
Ini,Repair,Compact,Convert,Profile
NOSTARTUP,RUNTIME,NEWDB,DBWIZ,
WRKGRP,PRFTST,QZX.SHELLSYSTEM,
REGSERVER,UNREGSERVER,ZXQ,DECOMPILE

 

[Dimitri Furman]

FWIW, also found that Access is passed the EMBEDDING parameter when
you create an OLE application object. You can do this from a command
line: if you pass -EMBEDDING then the access instance that you create
is not visible, and is not expecting user input. (well no, that is NOT
very useful, but....)

Actually, the EMBEDDING switch can be useful when you want to open a read-
only database and want to avoid the "This database is read-only" message.