system command

[Dennis Malen]

Ken,

The extra slashes that Mark included got us further than anyone. The problem 
was that it never got to the next step until Mark pointed out the need for 
the use of the extra slashes, but it still did not allow us to execute the 
line properly so it did what it was suppose to do which was execute a ".cs" 
file and take us from UNIX to windows and into our scanning program and into 
the proper record number.

This is the result of what Mark gave us:

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

The following was just provided me by one of our in house programmers which 
was accidentally sent to you by mistake:

Mark's did not have an extra \ it looks like the beginning is the problem
> with the "\033&...
>
> Marks returned a ^[&...   with I think may be translated to an esc but
> maybe that is the problem because the end \\015 did do the carriage
> return.

Hopefully the foregoing will provide you with some more insight especially 
with John Esak as he is starting from scrach.:

Dennis
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenneth Brody" <kenbrody at bestweb.net>
To: "Dennis Malen" <dmalen at malen.com>
Cc: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>; "pmahler" <pmahler at malen.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 7:24 PM
Subject: Re: system command


> 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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