Re: Bug? Failure of Macros to Expand

2004-10-21 Thread Alain de Gevigney
Hello Bill, On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 at 21:48:28 [GMT -0500] (which was 04:48 where I live) you wrote: BMc:\test_bat.cmd %FolderName BM receives %FolderName - not expanded to the actual BM folder name. Is there some trick to get the macro to BM expand? You need to use a 'cmd' template like :

Re: Bug? Failure of Macros to Expand

2004-10-21 Thread Bill McCarthy
On Thu 21-Oct-04 4:05pm -0400, Alain de Gevigney wrote: On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 at 21:48:28 [GMT -0500] (which was 04:48 where I live) you wrote: BMc:\test_bat.cmd %FolderName You need to use a 'cmd' template like : Thanks, Alain, that's a nice work-a-round to the problem. It works fine.

Bug? Failure of Macros to Expand

2004-10-18 Thread Bill McCarthy
Hello TB Beta List, Attempting to pass the folder name (or any other macro) to a batch file, the macro is not expanding. For example, a filter with the Execute action and command line: c:\test_bat.cmd %FolderName receives %FolderName - not expanded to the actual folder name. Is there some