Shell command problem on Windows 7

[Peter Haworth]

I have an update on this problem.

The "other stuff" mentioned as part of the command line in my original
message includes a file path.  Initially, I did not have quotes around the
file path but if the file path contained a space, I got an error.  I then
put quotes around the file path parameter and that's when the "C:\Program"
error started occurring.

I'l mention again that if I copy and paste the exact same command out of
the LC variable into a Windows command prompt, it works with no error so
I'm pretty convinced this is a Livecode problem, not Windows.

Has anyone seen this before?
Pete
lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>
PS Ralph - I did try it with no quotes around the program file path but got
the same "C:\Program" error



On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Peter Haworth <pete at lcsql.com> wrote:

> I have a variable tCommand whose contents are:
>
> "C:\Program Files (x86)\GnuWin32\bin\diff.exe" ....<other stuff>
>
> To clarify, the quote chars are in tCommand
>
> If I execute it with
>
> put shell(tCommand) into temp
>
> ... temp contains "'C:\Program' is not recognized as an internal or
> external command"
>
> If I copy and paste the contents of tCommand into a Windows Command Prompt
> window, it works fine.
>
> It seems like LC is somehow swallowing the quote characters around the
> program file name, causing the space after "Program" to be the end of the
> program file name.
>
> I'm probably missing something obvious but can't figure out what!
>
>
> Pete
> lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>
>
>