Re: Problems with syscmd

[Eric Blake]

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According to Markus Petek on 8/27/2009 1:30 AM:
> System:
> 
> Windows XP Prof SP2
> 
> m4 Version: 1.4.10b-2

Consider upgrading; the latest stable version is 1.4.13, and has some
improvements to syscmd.

> 
> it shows no error message but the test.tmp is also not created
> 
> create_test_temp.bat:
> 
> echo eval([^<98/3^>]) >> test.tmp
> 
> echo define([^<ACCU_VALUE^>],123-%1%) >> test.tmp

You may want to insert more debugging within your .bat script, to ensure
that it is being executed the way you think.  I personally haven't used m4
to run cmd scripts via windows m4, but cmd is such a hard shell to quote
properly for in the first place that I wouldn't be surprised if you are
invoking it incorrectly from your syscmd.

> 
> syscmd(`create_test_temp.bat?)
> 
> include(`test.tmp?)

These two lines don't correspond to the output you showed above.  Posting
a complete reproducible testcase might help clarify exactly what you tried.

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