That's the separator for the LAUNCH command that R:Base uses. Just another (but very unlikely) thought, Karen:
Have you got a funny keyboard that's not giving you a proper bar character? Regards, Alastair. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Steward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 6:28 PM Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Gave up on the Launch > Karen, > > As a big fan of Adobe Acrobat, I've been following this thread and I just > tried a little experiment from a command prompt window (no R:Base and no > LAUNCH". > > Running under Windows 2000 and using the full Adobe Acrobat package (not > the Reader) in a command window, I constructed the following command line > (where << and >> are my additions to delineate the command line in this > email) and the PDF file was sent directly to my default printer: > > <<C:\>"C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 6.0\Acrobat\Acrobat.exe" /p /h > C:\LakeMonticello\FridayFlyer_2004-11-19.pdf>> > > Then I issued the following command and received an error message (again > with << and >> delineators): > > <<C:\>"C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 6.0\Acrobat\Acrobat.exe" | /p /h > C:\LakeMonticello\FridayFlyer_2004-11-19.pdf>> > > <<'/p' is not recognized as an internal or external command, > operable program or batch file.>> > > Which begs the question regarding your original problem command > line: what's the purpose of the vertical bar character? > > Alan Steward > > > At 11:20 11/19/2004 -0500, you wrote: > > >Well, I've just given up. I tried Alastair's formation of the Launch > >command, but his had no spaces in the directory hierarchy and > >mine does. > > > >What I did was copy AcroRd32.exe to the c:\ directory and tried > >the launch to see if the spaces in the directory names made a > >difference, but it still doesn't print out. In its simplest form, it looks > >like: > > > >LAUNCH 'c:\acrord32.exe|/p /h c:\504209.pdf' > > > >No error message, but still no printing. > > > >Some people say to use Acrobat.exe instead of Acrord32.exe, so > >I copied that to c:\ and also didn't work. > > > >I tried Mike's .vbs script, changed it to use my directory of: > >"C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 5.0\Acrobat\Acrobat.exe" > > > >Called it with: launch 'printdoc.vbs|c:\504209-1.pdf' > > > >Same thing, no error but no printing. I'm thinking there's something > >I'm missing to be able to print automatically from acrobat, period! > > > >I'm going to tell the client this can't be done in 6.5++ > > > >Karen >
