What does Windows 'shell' expect?

[Nonsanity]

Slight change, typo I think:

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Bob Sneidar <bobs at twft.com> wrote:

> Graham, in the form you used, Livecode passes the shell argument without
> the quotes. To Livecode,  the quotes are string delimiters, so to speak.
> Try:
>
> put "start My Program.exe" into theWinApp
> put quote before word 2 of theWinApp
> put quote after word 2 of theWinApp
>
put quote after word -1 of theWinApp

> get shell(theWinApp)
>
> You *could* try to embed the quotes in a single statement of course, but I
> find that sort of thing "dirty" especially if I am the one who later on has
> to figure out what the h*ll I was thinking.
>
> Bob
>

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