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  3. January 2004

RE: CMD prompt question

How about prompt validation program?

-----Original Message-----

>Anyway, command prompts are NOT a specialty of mine, so I'm fishing for
>ideas.  Could a command validation program help with this?  

No, because it doesn't get that far.  The problem is that the OS won't treat
a
non-quoted value containing a hyphen as a string, it treats it as an
expression
and the hyphen as a subtraction operator.

Just change your program building the command string to always add quotes;
they
never hurt anything.

Doug

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