Re: BLAT 2.6.2

> So I have been happily using BLAT on my Windows 2k3 server for a number of 
> years with barely any issue.  We use it to email sales reports and the 
> like from the server to different employees.  Sadly my server crashed last 
> week and I had to create a new one.  The new one seems to have all the 
> BLAT info on it but it does not work.  I should be able to fix this but it 
> has been a long 5 days and I am more then a little punchy at this point.
>
> So when I run one of my simple .bat files  This is the error that I am 
> getting.
>
> 'blat' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable 
> program or batch file.
>
> The batch file used to be able to run without pointing directly to 
> blat.exe (i.e. a dos command) but even when I point the batch file 
> directly to the exe I still get that same error message
>
> c:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\blat.exe 
> D:\POS\Retail\Rpro\print\nightlypolling.txt -to [email protected] -cc 
> [email protected] -Subject "nightly polling"
>
> I have also tried something like this. Don't worry about how the files get 
> there its in a different place
>
> PATH=C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32;C:\WINDOWS
> c:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\blat.exe -subject "Weekly Reports" -to 
> [email protected] -cc [email protected] -attach 
> c:\POS\retail\Rpro\print\anon\*.xls -body "Please see attached 
> Spreadsheets"
> exit
>
> If anyone can point me in the right direction I would appreciate it.


Version 2.6.2 was built to require msvcrt.dll.  If this file is missing, 
that would prevent Blat.exe from running.

A better solution would be to get the latest version of Blat and use it 
instead.  Newer versions of Blat do not require msvcrt.dll as this was 
linked into the executable.

Chip