Re: Run an external program and capture its output

On 17/04/2014 15:06, John R. Hogerhuis wrote:
>
> In what you show you are using single quotes. In the example I think 
> you were trying, back ticks are used. It matters.
>

Wow...  VERY well spotted John.  After switching to back ticks it now 
seems to be working on all 3 platforms!!!

A huge vote of thanks to everyone who helped me with this.  I'd 
literally spent days struggling with this problem.  Thanks a million!

John