reboot after you change your path. what windows OS are you using ? > -----Original Message----- > From: HENRY,MARK (HP-Roseville,ex1) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 1:40 PM > To: 'Dan Muey'; HENRY,MARK (HP-Roseville,ex1); [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: forcing use of shell command over external cmd > > > Dan & Kipp, > > Thanks for the help. > > Dan, looks like that was the thing to do, passing an arg to > cmd. Kipp, I > tried the path stuff but it wouldn't fly.. > > Thanks guys! > > Mark > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Dan Muey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 10:27 AM > > To: HENRY,MARK (HP-Roseville,ex1); [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: RE: forcing use of shell command over external cmd > > > > > > Well if it was unix and for some reason there where two > > possibilies for the same command I'd use the entire path > > > > $date = `/usr/bin/date +%Y`; > > > > For windows not sure how that would work, maybe > > > > $date = `c:\path/to/cmd.exe date`; > > > > Perhaps, though like I said I'm not sure, I really hate > > windows and aviod it every chance I can :) . > > > > > > Dan > > -----Original Message----- > > From: HENRY,MARK (HP-Roseville,ex1) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 12:21 PM > > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > > Subject: forcing use of shell command over external cmd > > > > > > Hi All, > > > > On windows, I have a script which calls gets the date from > > the system date command (using backticks) , or rather I would > > prefer it to. > > > > I have just installed mks toolkit on this machine which has > > it's own date command, and now this is the command getting > > chosen each time. > > > > How can I get it to use cmd.exe's date command, or more > > generally force use of the system shell's commands over an > > external program? > > > > Many thanks, > > > > Mark > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
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