Using call with quotes

Hello, I am wanting to use rebol/view to invoke a .bat file (in windows) which will subsequently run a java program but that is by the by and need to pass parms to the bat file. These parms can contain spaces so I need to surround the parm with quotes ("). My problem is that I can't see how to do this. Given a .bat file that merely echoes the parms and then holds the DOS command window open for 20 seconds (using ping) then this fragment works fine: a: "parm1" b: "parm2" call reduce [%/c/ron/test1 a b] and the DOS window opens and displays a = parm1 b = parm2 as I expect. However when I change this to: a: join {"} ["parm1" {"}] b: "parm2" in an attempt to put quotes round the parm then the DOS window is not displayed (or at least it may open and close immediately). Issuing print a however shows "parm1" which shows that the quoting worked. Can anyone please explain what I am doing wrong. Sorry if this seems basic but I'm just experimenting with Rebol. Thanks Ron

Hi Ron, having tried something similar I found that it works fine for me using the next script: rebol [] dir: "c:\program files\*.*" cmd: join "dir /s " [{"} dir {"}] print cmd call cmd input Did you take care of the mandatory spaces between the command and the parameters? Hope this helps! Arie

Hi again, in order to check the specific case of using a batch file I ran the following rebol script: rebol [] dir: "c:\program files\*.*" cmd: join "dir.bat /s " [{"} dir {"}] print cmd call cmd input Which in turn runs the bat file called dir.bat (in same directory as rebol script). echo Parm1=%1 echo Parm2=%2 pause The results displayed by dir.bat are: D:\src\rebol>echo Parm1=/s Parm1=/s D:\src\rebol>echo Parm2="c:\program files\*.*" Parm2="c:\program files\*.*" D:\src\rebol>pause Druk op een toets om door te gaan. . . So, I assume all works just fine! Regards Arie

Hi, 'mold works for me, of works you have to be carefull, that mold doesn't switch to {} kind of strings, because of the length ... call reduce [%test.bat "test1" mold "test with spaces"] Kind Regards, Ingo On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 13:38:47 +0200, Arie van Wingerden <apwing-zonnet.nl> wrote: