"system" and Windows

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sorry, but neither of these two commands work :-<

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nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:

Hi,

At Fri, 31 May 2002 22:12:51 +0900, > MENON Jean-Francois wrote:

for example:
system (‘“c:\Program Files\App\cmd.exe”’,“file”)
doesn’t work.

You need quotes for only single argument. Just:

system (‘c:\Program Files\App\cmd.exe’,“file”)

or

system (‘“c:\Program Files\App\cmd.exe” file’)

will work.

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Nobu Nakada

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Hi,

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At Sun, 2 Jun 2002 05:14:49 +0900, MENON Jean-Francois wrote:

for example:
system (‘“c:\Program Files\App\cmd.exe”’,“file”)
doesn’t work.

You need quotes for only single argument. Just:

system (‘c:\Program Files\App\cmd.exe’,“file”)

or

system (‘“c:\Program Files\App\cmd.exe” file’)

will work.

sorry, but neither of these two commands work :-<

It works only in 1.7 unless backported, sorry.

–
Nobu Nakada