Thanks all, I tried several versions, enclosing in ' ' and various spaces. Adding or removing spaces did make it behave differently, but alas none would work as needed. .
However... I checked Alastair's recommendation again and found that it does work! I do not know why, but I had first created the parameter variable all with one string. But when I actually made each parameter a variable, added the pipe and then used the combination as he shows, darn if it did not work! Interesting! Thanks Alastair. -Bob -- Thompson Technology Consultants LaPorte, IN 46350 219-363-7441 -------------- Original message -------------- From: "Dawn Hast" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>It appears that the LAUNCH command syntax passes only one parameter.<< I don't think that's necessarily true. This works and has multiple parameters: launch 'f:\rbfiles\acrobat\acrobat.exe| /p /h f:\rbfiles\webwinddirection.pdf' I do remember having some trouble when the spacing wasn't just right - there should be no space between the exe and the pipe symbol, and one space between the pipe and the first slash for the first parameter. -------------- Original message from [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -------------- Alastair, Thanks for the input. I tried that approach and was unsuccessful. It appears that the LAUNCH command syntax passes only one parameter. I ended up dynamically writing a batch file and then used LAUNCH filename.bat. It works OK. Thanks again. -- Thompson Technology Consultants LaPorte, IN 46350 219-363-7441 -------------- Original message -------------- From: "Alastair Burr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Try it this way: SET VAR vLaunchProg TEXT = NULL SET VAR vLaunchParams TEXT = NULL SET VAR vLaunch TEXT = NULL SET VAR vLaunchProg = '[drive]:\[path]\winscp.exe' SET VAR vLaunchParams = '/console /script=test.txt|w' SET VAR vLaunch = (.vLaunchProg & '|' & .vLaunchParams) LAUNCH .vLaunch I have never found any reason why this should work (when the obvious doesn't) but it always does for me. Regards, Alastair ----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: RBASE-L Mailing List Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 6:34 PM Subject: [RBASE-L] - Launch command Can you pass two parameters with the launch command? So far the below does not work. launch winscp.exe|/console /script=test.txt|w Thanks! -Bob -- Thompson Technology Consultants LaPorte, IN 46350 219-363-7441 No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.138 / Virus Database: 270.5.0/1557 - Release Date: 17/07/2008 05:36
