Re: Question on CALL SYSTEM

["Fehl, Douglas" <dfehl@HERSHEYS.COM>]

I believe the problem may be with your DOS command. For the target
directory, either leave the last backslash off: c:\target  or add the
wildcards:  c:\target\*.*

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> From:         Anthony Leung-New York[SMTP:ALeung@RUSSREYN.COM]
> Sent:         Wednesday, July 07, 1999 8:57 AM
> To:   Multiple recipients of list SQR-USERS
> Subject:      Question on CALL SYSTEM
>
> Dear all,
>
> I have a sqr that is running on a Windows 95 environment. I need to do a
> CALL SYSTEM to copy files from one directory to another. According to the
> SQR Reference book the syntax should be as follow:
>
> CALL SYSTEM USING 'copy c:\source\*.*  c:\target\'   #s
>
>
> where #s returns the status of the call.
>
> I ran the sqr but the return status is always 2 (which indicates an error)
> and nothing gets copied over to the target
>
> Can someone shed some light in this area.
>
> Thanks
>