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I'm totally confused about what happens when there are no quotes around
"%{sVv}"
It doesn't work with my scripts although & doesn't confuse it.
Back to the drawing board...
"Russell Yanofsky" <rey4 at columbia.edu> wrote in message
news:bd5ufb$p6j$1 at sisko.nodomain.org...
> Tony Hoyle wrote:
> > Terris Linenbach wrote:
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> > DEFAULT dgloginfohtmlnntpemail "%{sVv}" "$USER"
> >>
> >> So I am trying to put double-quotes around the filename, but for some
> >> reason it doesn't work.
> >
> > Try putting multiple sets of double quotes...
> >
> > cmd.exe is buggy, unfortunately, and doesn't handle escaped files
> > properly. With 2.1.x I'll probably get the chance to change the
> > syntax to make it possible to do that kind of stuff... that doesn't
> > help you now though.
> >
> > Tony
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> cmd.exe handles quotes in a weird way, but i don't think it's buggy.
>
> when you say CreateProcess("cmd /c ...") it executes the string after the
/c as
> exactly as if it were typed into the command prompt window. The only
exception
> is that if the first character is a double quote then it and the very last
> double quote character are stripped and the resulting string is run
instead.
> This is described in the cmd.exe docs that print when you run "cmd /?"
>
> Anyway, Terris's example actually works for me when I leave the quotes off
of
> %{sVv} since cvsnt adds its own.
>
> - Russ
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