"Warning, Will Robinson, WARNING"
The presence of double-quotes (") _inside_ the string to be passed to
DOS can provide 'surprise' results. This was fixed in 10.1.1 by patch #
5616 which includes a new function "UVRunCommand" (I think the same
patch found its way into 10.0.x, but I haven't checked the Release Notes
for 10.0)
>From the 10.1.1 Release Notes:
5616 At this release, a new GCI function, UVRunCommand, has been
added. This command executes a Windows executable and has one
argument. You can specify the executable name and its argument
as a string. To execute the command, use
C:\windows\system32\cmd.exe /c. You must use single or double
quotation marks around the string argument, as shown in the
following example:
Result = UVRunCommand("c:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /c dir")
For example, suppose that the "123.pdf" file has to go in a directory
"The Users Data".
The proper DOS convention is to enclose an argument with spaces in
double quotes as I show it above.
So, you would replace the above example with
Cmd = 'AcroRd32 /p /t "The Users Data\123.pdf"'
Result = UVRunCommand(Cmd)
If you tried
Cmd = \DOS /C 'AcroRd32 /p /t "The Users Data\123.pdf"'\
PERFORM Cmd
The data received by DOS would NOT be what you expected.
And, no I don't know what gets put into "Result", I haven't started
testing 10.1 yet.
HTH
Mike
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ray Wurlod
> Sent: Tuesday, 26 April 2005 19:18
> To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org
> Subject: RE: Re[2]: [U2] Printing PDF from uv {Unclassified}
>
> Don't forget that UniVerse BASIC has three quote characters,
> the backslash being the third. And PERFORM is more efficient
> than EXECUTE (depending on flavor and/or $OPTIONS) since it
> doesn't set up an extra execution level. F'r instance:
>
> Cmd = \DOS /C "AcroRd32 /p /t 123.pdf"\
> PERFORM Cmd
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