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RCMD Strips Quotes from the Command Line

Article ID: 161890

Article Last Modified on 11/1/2006

Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Developer Edition
Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Standard Edition

This article was previously published under Q161890

SYMPTOMS

When you use Rcmd.exe from the Windows NT Server 4.0 Resource Kit and Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Resource Kit to create a remote command that requires quotation marks around its parameter(s), you receive an error.

See the following example:

C:\> rcmd \\myserver net start "computer browser"
Executing on \\myserver: net start computer browser

The service name is invalid.

More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 2185.

Remote server \\myserver disconnected

CAUSE

RCMD strips the quotation marks from the command line (note this behavior on the second line of the previous example) that results in a single multi- word parameter being interpreted as two parameters.

RESOLUTION

This problem was corrected in the Supplement Three. Supplements are available for download from the following Microsoft Press Web site:

http://mspress.microsoft.com

Additional query words: quotes ignore ignoring

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