Sorting filePro Arrays

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 06:20:18PM -0400, Bob Stockler wrote:
>        If: DOS
>      Then: TEMP1 = "C:\temp\sort.tmp"
>        If: DOS
>      Then: TEMP2 = "C:\temp\sorted.tmp"
>        If: DOS
>      Then: system noredraw "SORT" < TEMP1 < ">" < TEMP2
> 
> The file "sorted.tmp" is created, but doen't contain the redirected
> output of SORT.
> 
> Can anyone offer any suggestions?

That's going to leave a space between the redirect character > and the
argument following it.  Unix (usually) doesn't care about that space,
but CMD.EXE might, and I don't even know whether SYSTEM calls that or
COMMAND.COM.

Try putting cmd.exe *explicitly* at the head of your system command.

Cheers,
-- jra
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