Win32: Using system cmd to invoke batch file

[Stephen Simpson]

Thanks to those who pointed me in the right direction with the system command.

I want to invoke a batch file using the system command.  The batch file 
takes a couple of filename parameters.  I wan' to use long-filenames (with 
embedded spaces) instead of the archaic DOS shortname convention.  How do I 
do it?

I've tried the following unsuccessfully:

system("BatchFile LongFileNameWithSpaces_1 LongFileNameWithSpaces_2")
system("BatchFile "LongFileNameWithSpaces_1" "LongFileNameWithSpaces_2"")
system("BatchFile ""LongFileNameWithSpaces_1"" ""LongFileNameWithSpaces_2""")
system("BatchFile """LongFileNameWithSpaces_1""" 
"""LongFileNameWithSpaces_2"""")
system("BatchFile 'LongFileNameWithSpaces_1' 'LongFileNameWithSpaces_2'")

Is there some kind of quote character etc that I can use to delimit these 
filenames with embedded spaces or am i going to have to resort to other 
methods?  Should I be using unix style path delimeters?

Cheers,


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