How to execute an .exe file in Progress OpenEdge

Question

Before I ask anything, let me tell you I have no experience whatsoever on Progress Openedge, but my company runs an application made in it and now I have to make some SOAP calls through it. So I figured, why not call an external script made in whatever language I deem fit?

But I can't even find how to run an external script through OpenEdge when I google for it. There's no examples anywhere, the documentation is long and confusing (for me at least). That brings me to this simple question:

How can I call an external script in Progress OpenEdge?

Answer 1

Try OS-COMMAND.

See Progress Knowledge Base, too. And a complete description on how to interact with your OS.

Answer 2

I had a similar problem and ended up using this in a Windows application:

OS-COMMAND NO-CONSOLE "program_executed_here".

The lack of a "NO-WAIT" means my progress code waited until the command was finished (which I needed). The NO-CONSOLE keeps Progress from popping up an annoying console window after the OS command finishes running.