system command

[Dennis Malen]

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. The 
following is my processing for "system":



Then:le="echo";lg="\"\\033&o";pa="Fvar 
searchnum="{@rn{";CompileFile(\\\"260268.cs\\\");\\015\""

Then: system le<lg{pa

If I use "msgbox le<lg{pa" the line comes up in the window correctly. If I 
cut and paste the line to the unix command line it executes properly. The 
system command does not execute it properly. In fact, nothing happens. In 
lieu of using "\" to put in the extra "\" and quotes I experimented with 
using "chr". That also displayed on the message box correctly, but when used 
with the system command nothing happened.

Also please note that "55555" that I hard wired in was properly substituted 
for the "@rn" in the string and displays correctly.

If it works on the command line, it should work in the system command.

Any help would be appreciated.

Dennis Malen
516.479.5912