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I think options(*string) takes care of that for you when you pass a
character string.  IIRC, it creates a temp variable that's null terminated
and passes a pointer to that.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Pluta [mailto:joepluta@PlutaBrothers.com]
> Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 9:45 AM
> To: midrange-l@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: qzshsystem api
>
>
> > From: Joel Fritz
> >
> > Does anyone have any experience with QzshSystem()?  I was
> playing around
> > with it yesterday and it worked but it didn't.  Using the
> > prototype below, I
> > passed in a command string, the call executed successfully--well, it
> > returned 7--and nothing happend.  I tried sending a
> directory listing to a
> > file and calling a program that created a small text file.
> >
> > Dqzhsystem        pr            10i 0 extproc('QzshSystem')
> > D cmdstring                       *   value  options(*string)
>
> I haven't tried it, but I know Unix commands like nulls at
> the end.  Did you
> make sure to append a null (x'00') at the end of your command string?
>
> Joe
>
>
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