Re: Question on CALL SYSTEM

["David M. Thelen" <ddthelen@SBBSNET.NET>]

I don't recall all the details behind the system call but this was the
suggestion I received a while back and has worked well for me.

   LET $COMMAND =  GETENV('COMSPEC') || ' /c copy c:\source\*.* c:\target\*.*'

   call system using $COMMAND #s

I think you could probably get more details on this from the archives but I'm
have a CRS day.


Anthony Leung-New York wrote:

> 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