Hello Monks

This worked on Windows XP but is not working on Windows 7.

So, I have a file open in XMetaL and having edited, parsed and saved the file, I need to check internal links are ok. The script "check.pl" does this.

This is from my XMetal Macro:

sub CheckMarkup
{
    # document must be saved
    unless ($ActiveDocument->{Saved})
    {
        $Application->Alert("Document must be saved before checking");
        return;
    }

    # document must be valid
    unless ($ActiveDocument->{IsValid})
    {
        $Application->Alert("Document must be valid before checking (r
+un Validate)");
        return;
    }

    # get the path to this document
    my $path = $ActiveDocument->{FullName};

    # run the check script
    my $shell = Win32::OLE->new('WScript.Shell');
    unless ($shell)
    {
        $Application->Alert("Can't make WScript.Shell object");
        return;
    }

    $shell->Run("I:\\...\\check.bat \"$path\"", 5);
}

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This is the content of the check.bat file:

perl -w I:\...\xml2sgm.pl %1

perl -w I:\...\check.pl %1

The check.bat file is being found ok, but %1 comes up empty.

It certainly appears Windows 7 is the culprit as nothing else has changed.

Incidentally I: is a mapped drive to our Unix server.

Can anyone help with this problem? Your collective wisdom would be most appreciated.

In reply to perl subroutine in XMetaL macro - $path not being passed to batch file on Windows 7 by spb54

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