Command line parameters and start

I've got command line parameters in my Fox program going OK.

Any idea why if I use "start" they don't work?

This works OK:
"foxprog.exe parameter"

This produces "No PARAMETER statement found" error:
"start foxprog.exe parameter"

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TIA
Andrew Howell

Stefan
Tue Oct 26 05:17:27 CDT 2004


Just tried with a Vfp8 test.exe on WinXP and "start" seemed to forward
the testparameter. Which Fox and O/S versions do you use?


Regards
-Stefan

"Andrew Howell" <ajh@work> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> I've got command line parameters in my Fox program going OK.
>
> Any idea why if I use "start" they don't work?
>
> This works OK:
> "foxprog.exe parameter"
>
> This produces "No PARAMETER statement found" error:
> "start foxprog.exe parameter"
>
> --
> TIA
> Andrew Howell
>
>

Andrew
Tue Oct 26 06:19:53 CDT 2004

Stefan Wuebbe wrote:
> Just tried with a Vfp8 test.exe on WinXP and "start" seemed to forward
> the testparameter. Which Fox and O/S versions do you use?

Gosh I'm very poor at giving relevant information like that <g> sorry.
Win 95, FPW2.6a <vbg>

.. Just tested on NT4 - works fine. It's a 9x thing I guess.
Thanks.

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Regards
Andrew Howell

Stefan
Tue Oct 26 07:27:54 CDT 2004


"Andrew Howell" <ajh@work> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> Stefan Wuebbe wrote:
>> Just tried with a Vfp8 test.exe on WinXP and "start" seemed to forward
>> the testparameter. Which Fox and O/S versions do you use?
>
> Gosh I'm very poor at giving relevant information like that <g> sorry.
> Win 95, FPW2.6a <vbg>
>
> .. Just tested on NT4 - works fine. It's a 9x thing I guess.
> Thanks.

You're welcome, of course <s>
I do not remember all those additional switches anymore which used to
work in Win9x
start /?
Is there anything among them to modify additional parameter handling?


hth
-Stefan

Andrew
Tue Oct 26 07:32:07 CDT 2004

Stefan Wuebbe wrote:
> You're welcome, of course <s>
> I do not remember all those additional switches anymore which used to
> work in Win9x
> start /?
> Is there anything among them to modify additional parameter handling?

No, just things to do with window size and whether or not to wait until the
program finishes before continuing.

The target machine in this case is Windows 2k so it'll go fine - I should
have been a little more thorough and tested on that before posting.

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Regards
Andrew Howell