Windows/quotes/"start" (was Re: Having problem getting quotation marks with SYSTEM)

[Boaz Bezborodko]

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On 11/15/2011 11:41 AM, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> On 11/15/2011 11:28 AM, Boaz Bezborodko wrote:
> [...]
>> When I try to open the pdf file with a Windows "Start [filename]" it 
>> doesn't
>> work with a space and doesn't work with quotation marks.
>
> This is a "design flaw" (IMHO) in the "start" command.  If the first 
> parameter starts with a quote, then it is taken as the title to give 
> the window.  (There is no flag, such as "/title:", to specify this.  
> It's based purely on the existence of that quote.)
>
> Therefore, this doesn't work as one might expect:
>
>     start "c:\path\to\filename with spaces.ext"
>
> Rather than opening the specified file, you will get a new command 
> window, with the given string as the window title.
>
> I learned long ago to include a null quoted string:
>
>     start "" "c:\path\to\filename with spaces.ext"
>
>> I'm sure there a simple edit I can use to strip out spaces, but I 
>> just get
>> my head around it right now.
>>
>> (I can get the edit syntax if I spend a bunch of time to grok it, but 
>> I then
>> forget it until a few years later when I might need it again.)
>

OK, that solves one problem, but I'm still not getting the quotation 
marks when I execute
SYSTEM "ECHO !PDF \"/f\\server\data\fpro\temp\ "{[filename]{"\">>
"&[anotherfilename]

An edit to strip out the spaces would also solve my problem.