system command

[Dennis Malen]

Ken,

That was Mark's last post that created it.

Dennis
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenneth Brody" <kenbrody at bestweb.net>
To: "Fairlight" <fairlite at fairlite.com>
Cc: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 7:18 PM
Subject: Re: system command


> 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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