What's there difference between invoking the two? Using a variable for the return value, or using parentheses? Or both? m-> On Mon, Mar 09, 2015 at 09:06:05AM -0400, Kenneth Brody thus spoke: > The SYSTEM *command* was never "redone". Rather, as I wrote in my > original reply (quoted above), 5.6 introduced the SYSTEM() > *function*. -- Audio panton, cogito singularis.