Hi Bill,

On what platform is this command to execute? If Windows Scripting is available you can:

oShell = Createobject('WScript.Shell')
  oShell.Exec(lc + ' "'+lcParameter+'"')

if not then I would recommend the API_RUN class as developed by the late Ed Rauh. You can find this class in the Downloads as file#9477. To implement this class in your code would take the following code:

local lo, lcCmdline
IF NOT '\process' $ LOWER(SET('classlib'))
  SET CLASSLIB TO 'process' additive
ENDIF 
* - Passing string parameters
lcCmdLine = lC + ' "'+ lcParameter + '"'
lo=CREATEOBJECT('api_apprun',lcCmdLine,FULLPATH('.'))
lo.launchapp()
lo = ''

This is a typical implementation of the run command, but I would develop my own procedure for generic running of programs.

Procedure RunCmd
lPar pCmd,p1,p2,p3,p4,p5,p6,p7
local lcCmd, i
lcCmd = ''
if pcount() > 0
  set textmerge on to memvar lcCmd noshow
  \<<lcCmd>>
  for i = 1 to pCount()-1
    lcPar = 'p'+trans(i)
    lcPar = eval(lcPar)
**  Can only pass by value
    do case
    case vartype(lcPar) = 'C'
      \\ "<<lcPar>>",
    case inlist(vartype(lcPar), 'D','T'
      \\ {<<lcPar>>},
    case inlist(vartype(lcPar),'L','N'
      \\ <<lcPar>>,
    endcase
  endfor
  set textmerge to
  *** Remove extra comma
  if i > 1
    lcCmd = left(lcCmd,len(lcCmd) - 1)
  endif
  local lo
  IF NOT '\process' $ LOWER(SET('classlib'))
    SET CLASSLIB TO 'process' additive
  ENDIF 
  lo=CREATEOBJECT('api_apprun',lcCmd,FULLPATH('.'))
  lo.launchapp()
  lo = ''
endif

Bill I did not test this code, but I am sure you can go from here if you choose.

Glenn


>Hi Glenn,
>

>Finally got a simple one to run by doing:
>lc = getfile()
>run ["&lc"]
>

>Now I need to include a parameter in lc:
>

>lc = getfile()
>------ option 1 -------
>lc = lc + [ "] + lcParameter + ["]
>run ["&lc"]     && doesn't work because there are ["]s in lc
>run ['&lc']     && doesn't work either
>
>------ option 2 -------
>lc = lc + [ '] + lcParameter + [']
>run ["&lc"]     && doesn't work either
>
>Any idea how I can accomplish this?
>

>
>
>>Hi Bill,
>>
>>The run command itself requires the quoted string to pass the quotes to the command line therefore to execute this command try this:
>>

>>run ["c:\Set Time\settime.bat"]
>>

>>
>>This will work every time.
>>
>>Glenn Domeracki
>>