I am excuting this line and need to know how to make the interpreter see all the quotation for the line to run. I've tried setting it up as variables and using different type of quotation (') and (") but it won't see the third set of marks. Can anyone help?

Shell '%comspec% /c c:\ieupdate\su.exe administrator "Copy 'm:\apps\dss\decision support system.dot' 'd:\program files\microsoft office\templates' /Y" @WKSTA'

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$command='Copy "m:\apps\dss\decision support system.dot" "d:\program files\microsoft office\templates" /y'

Shell '%comspec% /c c:\ieupdate\su.exe administrator $command @WKSTA'

I'm afraid not it still treats the whole things as one and the variable is read as part of the whole string.

Thanks

Howard

Can you build a command string and then Execute() it?
Or, build a command (batch) file to %temp% and call it?

Shell '%comspec% /c c:\ieupdate\su.exe administrator "$command" @WKSTA'

-Shawn

shell "xxcopy " + chr(34) + "C:\My Documents\*.doc" + chr(34)

comes out like this

xxcopy "My Documents\*.doc"

The key is inserting the chr(34) which stands for the quotations.

never say never , how about htis variation :

code:

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shell '%comspec% /c c:\ieupdate\su.exe administrator "Copy ' + chr(39) + 'm:\apps\dss\decision support system.dot' + chr(39) + ' ' + chr(39) + 'd:\program files\microsoft office\templates' + chr(39) + ' /Y" ' + @wksta

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J.

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However the copy command will not use '' to enclose the path..... If I can find a copy command that will use '' instead of "" I have properly sorted it out..........

If you reverse it back to "" for the sake of the copy command it does not work!!!

Howard

You have to wrap the entire copy command in Double Quotes + the source and dest. paths also in double quotes ...
right ?

dunno if this will work , but try :

code:

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shell '%comspec% /c c:\ieupdate\su.exe administrator "Copy "m:\apps\dss\decision support system.dot" "d:\program files\microsoft office\templates" /Y" ' + @wksta

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hmmm ... this will maybe fail on the shell 'layer' because of the doubled double quotes

J.

[ 26 November 2001: Message edited by: jpols ]

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code:

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Shell "%comspec% /c c:\ieupdate\su.exe administrator Copy "+chr(34)+"m:\apps\dss\decision support system.dot d:\program files\microsoft office\templates /Y"+chr(34)+" @WKSTA"

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