>I am having problems passing a variable through the run command to DOS. I am listing small example of what I am trying to do. The following statement works without any problems
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>MvTmp = "0531"
>!"dir c:\data\perfmeas\dbf" + MvTmp + "\*.* > tmp.txt"
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>The problem is when the memory variable is before the dbf. So this works ...\dbf" + MvTmp..., but I cannot figure out how to get this to work ...MvTmp + "dbf\*.*...
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>Thanks
>Todd
Maybe try this...
lcDir = >!"dir c:\data\perfmeas\dbf" + MvTmp + "\*.* > tmp.txt"
! &lcDir
or maybe use ! (lcdir) - FYI there might be an issue if you have spaces in the part after the DIR...
ICQ 10556 (ya), 254117