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raouldukey@hotmail.com wrote: > [snip] > It seems as if the spawn command is using a dos shell that > doesn't acknowledge the path variable, but I am not sure. > > Any help / suggestions? TIA Open a command shell with 'spawn, "cmd"' and see if you can run your command manually? Spawn a batch file which calls your command and then "wait" (or whatever they call the Windows command to wait for input)? Then you should be able to see the error message. -- Mark Hadfield "Kei puwaha te tai nei, Hoea tahi tatou" m.hadfield@niwa.co.nz National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)
Thanks for the help! I was able to get it to work opening a shell in windows using the CMD or COMMAND. When I did it in spawn, it was unhappy. However, I fell to the old default and rebooted windows (hadn't done that in months) and then it started working normally. *shrug* very strange, but as long as it is working in the end.... thanks again.