Having problem getting quotation marks with SYSTEM

Boaz Bezborodko boaz at mirrotek.com
Tue Nov 15 07:59:29 PST 2011


I use Bob's excellent PrintWizard program for many things including 
generating PDFs.  Since I give people the choice of whether to print to 
a printer or a PDF I have a routine that enters a !PDF command in the 
first line of the file.  Up until now I haven't had a problem in that I 
didn't use any filenames with spaces in them.  I know that Printwizard 
can handle those files if I include them inside quotation marks.  But 
I'm having trouble getting in the quotation marks and I'm not sure why.

I input the line by first creating a file with the !PDF as the first 
line by executing a SYSTEM "ECHO..." command.  To put in the quotation 
marks I'm doing

SYSTEM "ECHO !PDF \"/f\\server\data\fpro\temp\ "{[filename]{"\" >> 
"&[anotherfilename]

But the line in [anotherfilename] looks like this (without the intended 
quotation marks):

!PDF /f\\server\data\fpro\temp\[filename]

What am I missing?

Boaz

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