>>Also, realize that this will only pick up the first parameter on the line; for example:
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>>MyApp Mary had a little lamb
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>>has 5(!) parameters. If you want to pass a complex parameter that may include separator characters, make certain to enclose it in quotes, ie:
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>>MyApp "Mary had a little lamb"
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>>Quote encapsulation can also be used to avoid VFP from stripping command elements prefixed with / or - from the parameter list.
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>True...
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>What I like to do with multiple parameters is still have one parameter line and have a delimiter that sperates the parameteres, a la web url... then, I parse the parmeters for the values with my chop() function... so, my command line would look like...
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>MyApp.Exe Mary~Had~A~Little~Lamb
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>or
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>MyApp.EXE Mary|Had|A|Little|Lamb...
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>The tilde and pipe seem to work well, since they don't genrally apper in text or command line delimiters.
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That wonder, until you need to specify a path on the command line that contains embedded spaces or your sep character (especially the tilde, which is often used in the short name derived from a long file name.) Quote encapsulation works there unambiguously.

>BOb