Shell Problem - Windows

[Mike McManus]

I am having some major problems getting a return from windows shell 
commands. I wrote the stack on my mac OSX using shell commands...runs 
great, if at times a bit slow, because of the commands. After making a 
few tweaks for paths and such on windows(98 or NT). I compiled and 
tried it. It failed miserabley. I tried more changes, but got nowhere, 
so I downloaded the windows runrev, loaded it at started working from 
there. Without good results.

So to the message box I go. With the 2 shell commands below. The first 
one properly returns the directory as expected. The second returns 
nothing and no result. The path is correct

--works--
put shell("dir" && quote & "C:\Program Files\ImageMagick-5.5.7-Q16)
--does not work--
put shell(quote & "C:\Program Files\ImageMagick-5.5.7-Q16\identify" & 
quote  && "Z:\InFlight.tif")

in fact though I can get the correct response manually from the command 
line. I cannot using shell. I am almost certain it is either a timeout 
thing or some quoting thing I am missing. Anyone with lots of Windows 
command line experience?