In a script I start a exe with the script step:
URL open "file://c:/program files/myExeDir/myProgram.exe"
This works fine

The new version of myProgram wants a parameter. I'' ve tried:
"file://c:/program files/myExeDir/myProgram.exe myParam" or
"file://c:/program files/myExeDir/myProgram.exe" "myParam"
But both ways fail.

Kees wrote:
In a script I start a exe with the script step:
URL open "file://c:/program files/myExeDir/myProgram.exe"
This works fine

The new version of myProgram wants a parameter. I'' ve tried:
"file://c:/program files/myExeDir/myProgram.exe myParam" or
"file://c:/program files/myExeDir/myProgram.exe" "myParam"
But both ways fail.

The problem is that URLs don't like spaces. You can try it as:
"file://c:/program files/myExeDir/myProgram.exe+myParam" or
"file://c:/program files/myExeDir/myProgram.exe%20myParam"

Or you can instead use the Send Event script step with:
"c:/program files/myExeDir/myProgram.exe myParam" (including the quotes
this time)

Parameters are often entered with a /
or go back to the previous version. If that worked, why change it?

On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:56:34 +0200, "Ursus" <ursus.kirk at (no spam) ziggo.nl
wrote:

Parameters are often entered with a /
or go back to the previous version. If that worked, why change it?

I don't understand what you mean. If I put a / before the parameter it
still doesn't work.

The program that I want to start is used to export/convert the FM
database to a MySQL database. This program is used by 2 FM scripts in
2 FM databases (I wrote the external program). The parameter is used
to tell which ini file the external progam should use (the ini
stores corresponding MYSQL fieldnames and MYSQL field datatypes for
each FM field). Anyway this new version of the external program is
nescessary.


Greetings,
Kees

On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:46:06 -0700, Howard Schlossberg
howard at (no spam) nospam.fmprosolutions.com> wrote:

I've tried Send Event with 'specify file'
filewin:/C:/Program Files/exporteer adressen/verzendAdressen.exe
without params and it works.
But when I try filewin:/C:/Program Files/exporteer
adressen/verzendAdressen.exe myIni.ini I get:
The file verzendAdressen.exe myIni.ini could not be found. FM
interprets 'verzendadressen.exe myIni.ini' as one filename.

You need to have quotes around any portion of it that has spaces.
Otherwise, Windows' command line interpreter reads a space as the end of
the path.

For example, both of these work for me:

1) This one needs quotes around the program pathname because of the
spaces. But the 2nd and 3rd parameters do not require quotes because
there are no spaces within them:

"C:\Program Files\Real\RealPlayer\realplay.exe" /startpos:00:00:00.0
http://yp.shoutcast.com/sbin/tunein-station.pls?id=8291

Kees,

Did I understand correctly you wrote the program you want to call?
If that is the case you could write two versions (or as much as you need)
each reading its own INI file then starting them with a calculated
commandline that starts the required version

if MyIni = a then
"file://c:/program files/myExeDir/myProgramA.exe"
else
"file://c:/program files/myExeDir/myProgramB.exe"
end if

Would that work?