system command

[Dennis Malen]

Mark,

Whether you use three slashes or one slash neither solves the problem when 
passing it through the system command. That's the point.

Dennis
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fairlight" <fairlite at fairlite.com>
To: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 7:47 PM
Subject: Re: system command


> Confusious (Kenneth Brody) say:
>> 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.
>
> Right.  Look at what he said he wanted, which was (\"260268.cs\"). That's
> what he -said- he wanted.  His code actually generated (originally, when I
> tested it) (\260268.cs\).  My mods gave him what he -said- he wanted.  If
> it wasn't elucidated clearly, Not My Problem.  It even had the backing of
> his own code, in which he had fP code of (\\\""260268.cs\\\") which 
> implies
> that he -wanted- those extraneous backslashes.
>
> What can I say?  I gave a line that generated exactly what was requested.
>
> mark->
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