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> 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
>
2003 10:27 AM
> To: HENRY,MARK (HP-Roseville,ex1); [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: forcing use of shell command over external cmd
>
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> Well if it was unix and for some reason there where two
> possibilies for the same command I'd use the entire path
>
> $date = `/u
take a look at your path. the external program may have changed it. if so
you can change the path back so the win32 directories come first
to see your path type: echo %PATH%
check your help on how to change the path, it is a bit different between
win32 os's
> -Original Message-
> From: HEN
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 a
