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

[Kenneth Brody]

On 11/15/2011 11:45 AM, Boaz Bezborodko wrote:
> On 11/15/2011 11:41 AM, Kenneth Brody wrote:
[...]
>> I learned long ago to include a null quoted string:
>>
>> start "" "c:\path\to\filename with spaces.ext"
[...]
>
> 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]

Obviously that's not the actual code.  Perhaps there's a typo in the real 
code that you "fixed" when transcribing it here?  Can you cut-and-paste the 
code you are actually running?

What does this do:

     system "echo !pdf \"/f\\foo\bar\" & pause"

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

What have you tried so far for such an edit?

-- 
Kenneth Brody