Re: blat within batch script - not running

> IMHO -
> I believe that where you have the quotes in your set commands is OK, but 
> the spaces around the equal signs is not. You
show in your email
>
>> set to = "-to eMail\@MyDomain.com"
>> set f = "-f eMail\@MyDomain.com"
>> set server = "-server smtp.MyDomain.com"
>
> I would instead code
>    Set to=”eMail\@MyDomain.com”
>    Set f=”-f eMail\@MyDomain.com”
>    Set server=”-server smtp.MyDomain.com”
>
> A SET command without any parameters will display the contents of all the 
> environment variables so you can check to see if they are set as you wish.
>
> Good luck
> Ernest

The issue with your method is that those quotation marks are passed to Blat 
directly, and the C command line pre-parser will treat the data within those 
quotation marks as a single entity.  Blat does not have any option "-to 
email\@mydomain.com", but it does have an option "-to".  If you put the 
quotation marks immediately before the environment variable as I had shown, 
then the environment variable does not carry the quotation marks, thus Blat 
would be given all parts of the environment variable content and that would 
be treated properly by the C command line pre-parser.

The correct way to get spaces embedded into his data would be to have the 
set commands as I have shown:

set "to=-to [email protected]"
set "f=-f [email protected]"
set "server=-server smtp.MyDomain.com"

Make sure there are no spaces before the equals sign, because spaces there 
can create different environment variables than intended.

Chip