# Send Params to Exe from HTML

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/send-params-to-exe-from-html/236509
**Category:** web dev
**Created:** [August 21, 2007, 4:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/send-params-to-exe-from-html/236509 "2007-08-21T16:08:21Z")
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### Author: ![jbailey](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/jbailey/32/2380_2.png) [@jbailey](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jbailey)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2007, 4:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/send-params-to-exe-from-html/236509/1 "2007-08-21T16:08:21Z")

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I have a program that emails a notice to my boss that he then clicks a link and it calls a program here in the office. The problem is I don’t know the syntax for sending parameters in html.

The exe executes. All I need to know is the syntax for passing vars via an html link.

[FONT=monospace]\<a href=“I:\Programs\Experiments\executeParameters.exe hi”\>send hi to executeParameters.exe\</a\>[/FONT]

THANKS!!