http://www.oehive.org/taxonomy/term/996/0 oehive http://www.oehive.org/node/2060 <p>I know I have seen the solution for this before, but I'll be darned if I can find it...</p> <p>Windows does some funky parsing of command line parameters, requiring embedded quotes, tildas, etc. to pass a parameter that has embedded quotes from OS-COMMAND. Hoping somebody has the key.</p> <p>Example:</p> <p>l-db = "C:\My Folder\My Subfolder\My.db".<br /> l-cmd = "C:\PROGRESS\OpenEdge\bin\prostrct repair " + l-db.</p> <p>OS-COMMAND VALUE(l-cmd).</p> <p>I've also tried: </p> <p>l-db = "C:~"\My Folder~"\~"My Subfolder~"\My.db".<br /> l-cmd = "C:\PROGRESS\OpenEdge\bin\prostrct repair " + l-db.</p> <br class="clear" /><div class="og_rss_groups"><ul class="links"><li class="first last og_links"><a href="/node/667" class="og_links">ABL(4GL) General Programming Group</a></li> </ul></div><p><a href="http://www.oehive.org/node/2060">read more</a></p> http://www.oehive.org/node/2060#comments OS-COMMAND parameters parsing ABL(4GL) General Programming Group Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:13:34 +0000 NoblePursuits 2060 at http://www.oehive.org