Shell Problem - Windows

Dar Scott dsc at swcp.com
Thu Jul 17 11:01:01 EDT 2003


On Thursday, July 17, 2003, at 08:17 AM, Mike McManus wrote:

> --works--
> put shell("dir" && quote & "C:\Program Files\ImageMagick-5.5.7-Q16)

I assume the '" & quote ' got dropped.

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

Perhaps shell() does not allow a quoted command/program name.  Try 
start.  You may need to quote quote in that.  Use /, I think.

Dar scott
not really lots of command line experience





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