Because "-" indicates a new switch to DOS?
--- John Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> We had a similar problem with a shortcut to an Access database. The
> directory
> name contained a hyphen, and the shortcut would not work until (in
> desperation) we put two spaces between the directory name (contained
> in
> quotation marks) and the rest of the command line.
>
> John Mason
> Kingston Morrison
>
>
> Carl Reynolds wrote:
>
> > Ok, now I'm really confused! How come
> >
> > ExecuteApplication('.', 'DosExec.bat', 'C:\ pcli ListVersionedFiles
> > -pr"G:\PVCS\Projects" -aw "/General Library - Delphi 4/CubeView"');
> >
> > works, but
> >
> > ExecuteApplication('.', 'DosExec.bat', 'C:\ pcli ListVersionedFiles
> > -pr"G:\PVCS\Projects" -aw "/General Library - Delphi 4/CubeView"');
> >
> > doesn't? Ie. in the second case, the batch file doesn't even get
> run?
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