Shell Commands

Kevin Miller kevin at runrev.com
Fri Feb 15 08:03:01 EST 2002


On 14/2/02 8:20 pm, Jeanne A. E. DeVoto <jeanne at runrev.com> wrote:

> The problem is that shell is a function whose return value is the returned
> data - not a command. So you need
> 
> answer shell("dir C:/")

And as this is on Windows, when writing to the command line, you need to use
the Windows \ character.

Kevin

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