Subj : Unique e-mail addy?
To   : Uberhund
From : Digital Man
Date : Tue May 29 2001 09:33 am

RE: Unique e-mail addy?
BY: Uberhund to Digital Man on Tue May 29 2001 01:17 pm

>  >  > Actually, got another quick question.  Is it possible to call exec (or
>  >  > equivalent to it) using a strvar instead of having to specify the stri
>  >  > there?  If so, it would probably be pretty easy to fix the wacked comm
>  >  > parameters under win2k when you make an exec call...
>  >
>  > I don't think that is the problem with telval on Win2K.
>  >
>
> Yeah, it appears to be some weirdness with cmd.exe.  It manifests itself,
> however, whenever a command line specifier (%g, etc) is used.  Once one of
> those is included in the string that exec receives, everything after the fir
> argument is transmuted into a single asterisk.  I've tested it fairly
> extensively.  I'm not saying that its Sync'd or BAJA's fault, rather, I'm ju
> looking for some sort of work-around.

Perhaps PistolGrip will be kind enough to fill us in on his work-around. I
suspect that if the program you're executing is in the native program (OS/2)
list in SCFG, the redirection still will work.

Rob

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