system command

[Dennis Malen]

Mark,

I just got in to the office. I did test it late last night from home. Just 
so you know, when I piped it to the file - if I used echo and then the line, 
the file would be empty. If I used "echo noredraw"  and the rest of the line 
it would place only the word noredraw in the file.

That being said I will try your suggestion now. It's frustrating because 
msgbox confirmed the output  visually was correct, but obviously it was not 
sending it anywhere.

I'll let everyone know shortly.

Thanks,

Dennis
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fairlight" <fairlite at fairlite.com>
To: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 8:05 PM
Subject: Re: system command


> The honourable and venerable Fairlight spoke thus:
>> In the relative spacial/temporal region of
>> Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 03:43:25PM -0500, Dennis Malen achieved the 
>> spontaneous
>> generation of the following:
>> > I would like to place the following string in a system command:
>> >
>> > echo "\033&oFvar searchnum=55555;CompileFile(\"260268.cs\");\015"
>> >
>> > When this line is executed on the command line it works perfectly. The
>> > following is my processing for "system":
>> >
>> > Then:le="echo";lg="\"\\033&o";pa="Fvar
>> > searchnum="{@rn{";CompileFile(\\\"260268.cs\\\");\\015\""
>
> I found your problem for you.  You need the code segment:
>     CompileFile(\\\\"260268.cs\\\\")
>
> You were previously ending up with a result of:  CompileFile(\260268.cs\)
>
> You need an extra backslash on each end.  Frankly, I'm not sure why 
> myself.
> I would have thought the code you gave is correct with one backslash
> escaping each of the two characters, \ and ", but apparently it is
> not correct for some reason that's eluding me at the moment.
>
> I did, however, find the code that yields your desired result.  More or
> less felt my way into the solution, since the problem didn't make sense to
> me in the first place.  Sometimes fixes are just instinctive, much as I
> hate those particular fixes.
>
> Tested on SCO 6.0.0, fP 5.0.14D4.
>
> Ken, John, anyone: why is the original syntax incorrect?  It's going to
> give me nightmares.
>
> mark->
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