system command

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Fairlight (Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:32:53 -0500):

> ONLY to help -Ken- not have to waste more time.
[...]
> <QUOTE POSTER="DM" FORMAT="BROKEN_MAILER_LINEBREAKS">
> Hello Everyone!
>
> I am on IBM AIX. I have 4.8 filepro soon to upgraded to 5.0.
>
> 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.

Okay.  That generates this sequence:

    ^[&oFvar searchnum=55555;CompileFile("260268.cs");^M

(Where "^[" is ESCape and "^M" is Ctrl-M.)

According to Dennis, the filePro code generates this:

    ^[&oFvar searchnum=55555;CompileFile(\"260268.cs\");

The only difference is the filePro code generates extraneous backslashes,
and the missing Ctrl-M.  I am going to assume that the Ctrl-M is there
but not shown in his sample.

[...]

What, what is the actual filePro code that generated the above sample?
Simply eliminate the extra backslashes, and the filePro output will be
identical to the command line that "works".

And, of course, if he's upgrading to 5.0, this can all be eliminated
by using SHOW RAW.

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