From: "U.Nakamura" <usa@...>
Date: 2003-09-03T21:21:20+09:00
Subject: Re: how to get the output of commands which contain backslashes?

Hello,

In message "Re: how to get the output of commands which contain backslashes?"
    on Sep.03,2003 19:01:01, <tobiasreif@pinkjuice.com> wrote:
| Your code
| 
|   `command.com /c \for-programs\use\\tidy\\tidy.exe -v`
| 
| works on XP?

It's not work. Sorry, I mistook.
But

| >   `command.com /c \\for-programs\use\\tidy\\tidy.exe -v`

This works on my XP box.


| What's the difference to the code above which I tested already and which 
| doesn't work?
| Are you sure about the "\\" mixed with "\"?

Yes.
\f and \t is interpreted as special sequence.
So, we need to escape them.
But, \u is interpreted "as is".


| Here is your code and a line with an added "\":
| 
|   puts `command.com /c \\for-programs\use\\tidy\\tidy.exe -v`
|   puts `command.com /c \\for-programs\\use\\tidy\\tidy.exe -v`
| 
| Neither produces any output. That's the problem :(

Now I can test on Win98 box at all.
To a strange thing (but as your report), Solution B' did not
work.
But, on my Win98 box, Solution A worked.


BTW, if you want to know what is happens, try
  `command.com /c echo SOME TEST COMMAND LINE`


Regards,
-- 
U.Nakamura <usa@osb.att.ne.jp>