system command

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Dennis Malen (Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:39:25 -0500):

> Ken,
>
> I'm at my wits end just like everyone else. Whatever time everyone else
> has spent (which I appreciate) we have spent 15 or 20 fold. I have three
> others in my office working on this.
>
> I'm sorry I don't remember everything you suggested. One I do remember
> is the request to redirect.

As soon as you had the redirected output, the answer was in front of
you.  filePro generated "X", you need "Y", so the change is "Z".

> We have printed each suggestion and sat down with our staff and tried
> each one. None worked.

Again, several suggestions were not solutions, but rather questions to
help find what is the problem.  Since these weren't "solutions", they
couldn't have "worked" in the sense of solving the problem, but had
they been tried, and the results posted to the list, people could help
figure out what is the actual problem.

> Mark's was the closest in getting something into a redirected file. I
> put that on the list.

Yes.  The output had extra backslashes generated by your filePro code.
Eliminate them, and your code should then "work".

[...]
> We now have the task of attempting to break up the file and create two
> files and merge everything on one line through system command.
[...]

Again, you're taking the long route.  Fix the original problem in your
code, and do it in one step, rather than trying to do things the hard
way in many steps.

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