AW: How to pass a path with spaces to windows shell start?

Tiemo Hollmann TB toolbook at kestner.de
Fri Jan 9 03:39:50 EST 2009


Yup, thanks, I mixed the first and second parm
Tiemo

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> Gesendet: Freitag, 9. Januar 2009 09:34
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> Betreff: Re: AW: How to pass a path with spaces to windows shell start?
> 
> 
> Because you need to wrap the part with a space in quotes, and the first
> quoted item in the string is taken as a console window title, you need to
> add an empty pair of quotes to "be the title" which is then ignored and
> the
> second quoted string (your program path) will be executed.
> 
> get shell ("start" && quote & quote && quote & tProg & quote)
> 
> should work.
> 





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