>>>>Hi,
>>>>I am trying to create a call to external program.
>>>>I created a string with command line options,parameters etc. and then
>>>>call RUN command.
>>>>When I use RUN/N1 &lcCommand everything looks good, but when I did
>>>>RUN &lcCommand, I've got an error message 'String is too long'.
>>>>So, when I use option N1, VFP doesn't check and send it to OS?
>>>>Does anybody have a similar problem?
>>>>TIA
>>>
>>>Jerry, try to create the full command string before your execute it.
>>>
>>>lcRunCommand = "RUN " + lcCommand && or "RUN/1 " + lcCommand
>>>&lcRunCommand
>>
>>
>>Nick,
>>thanks, but it doesn't work.
>>Jerry
>
>Could you post your full command string code here?
Nick,
It's very long and has a lot of command line switches,options and variables.
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lcCommand = gs_PSSQRBin+'SQRW.EXE' + " "+;
gs_PSSQRSrc+tcSQRName+'.SQR' + " "+;
CHRTRAN(xCrypt(gu_PSUserID),')','') + "/" +;
CHRTRAN(xCrypt(gu_PSUserPwd),')','') + "@" + gs_PSDataBase+" "+;
"-xcb -i" + lcPSIniLoc + " -m"+lcPSIniLoc+"allmaxes.max"+" "+;
"-o" + gs_PSTempLoc+"SQR.LOG"+" "+;
"-ZIF"+lcPSIniLoc+"pssqr.ini" +" "+;
['CATS']+" "+['CATS']+" "+['CATS']+" "+lcParamString

RUN &lcCommand && this is very the problem
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