Bob,
Try running it again from R prompt, but set your quotes to” SET QUOTES=NULL SET QUOTES=” LAUNCH xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (whatever your string is) SET QUOTES=NULL SET QUOTES=’ The * shouldn’t matter since it is in the double quotes. Steve Steve Vellella Office: 520-498-2256 Cell: 520-250-6498 From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 2:48 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: Launch Question 1) It does not work at the R> either. I see the program briefly flash up with the list of valid parameters. Similar to when you are at a dos prompt and type the old PROGRAM.EXE /? and it would show all the available parameters. 2) I tried the & but no luck. I can run the exact code at a C:> command prompt and it works as expected. So I know my parameters are correct. The trick is getting them passed properly. (Paths etc. are all correct as well) I suspect the double quotes or the asterisk is causing the problem. Thanks, -Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Vellella" <[email protected]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 4:26:55 PM Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: Launch Question Bob, Two things: 1) Have you tried using the launch command from the r prompt like your code is written out “LAUNCH HTTPGET.EXE -0 “Test.dat” –r –S “*SRA” 192.168.0.83:1000|W” 2) Have you tried using & “Launch &vlaunch” Steve Steve Vellella Office: 520-498-2256 Cell: 520-250-6498 From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 1:37 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Launch Question My day to ask questions! I need to launch an external program with parameters. Here is my code: set var vLaunch = 'HTTPGET.exe' set var vParameters = '-0 "Test.dat" -r -S "*SRA" 192.168.0.83:1000' set var vLaunch = (.vLaunch & '|' & .vParameters & '|W') Launch .vLaunch It does not work. Are the double quotes allowed in the parameters? Any other thoughts? Thanks again, -Bob
