@PW Processing Syntax

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Rodgers Hemer (Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:29:43 -0700):

> I would appreciate some assistance with the syntax for @PW processing
> (fP5.0.14/SCO6.0).  The help file seems to indicate that the variable
> field containing the value for "-rw" must be quoted.  I need to run
> the process as a system command in dclerk which appears to make the
> quoting of the -rw value impossible.  The entire command is:
>
> 	system "/u/appl/fp/dreport pslipd -f psform -a -v psformv -rw aa"
>
> Numerous attempts with various combinations of quotes, parens, etc
> have failed.  Any suggestions?

There's nothing wrong with your statement above, assuming that you want
to pass the literal "aa" into @PW.

Going under the assumption that what you really want is to pass the
contents of field aa, you want something like:

     system "/u/appl/fp/dreport pslipd -f psform -a -v psformv -rw '"  
& aa & "'"

You can improve this a bit by not hard-coding the path to dreport:

     system getenv("PFPROG") & "/fp/dreport pslipd -f psform -a -v  
psformv -rw '"
         & aa & "'"

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