On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, David Forrest wrote: > On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Shin, David wrote: > ... >>> system("c:\\program files\\sas institute\\v8\\sas.exe test") >> Warning message: >> c:\program not found > > Escape the spaces too. It is trying to run the program c:\program or > c:\progra~1\sas Sorry that does not work. The Windows way is to quote it: e.g. system('"c:/Program Files/Mozilla Firefox/firefox.exe"') works, and there is an example on the help page ?system, so please do as the posting guide asks and read the documentation .... -- Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595

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