OpenEuphoria

Re: bindw system_exec

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at ATTCANADA.NET> Feb 09, 1999
• 459 views

Thomas Ruf writes:
> Using a registered version of Euphoria 2.1 I wrote a program
> that contains the line:

> res=system_exec ("peaplot.exe "&outpath&outname&" "&gnucall,2)

> to invoke another program.
> This works fine if I run my program with exw. However, trying
> to use bindw I always get an error message pointing to this
> line. It says 'Syntax error - expecting to see expression not
> illegal character', and bind aborts.

> Is this a bug or did I do something stupid?

It's a bug. It will be fixed in the 2.1 beta release in a
couple of weeks. Thanks for reporting it.

I don't think there's much you can do about it until then,
unless you can get by with system() instead of system_exec(),
or unless you don't really need to bind or shroud your program.

Regards,
     Rob Craig
     Rapid Deployment Software
     http://members.aol.com/FilesEu/