I'm trying to run a program with command line parameters put together by node red. When executed from node red I always get "File Not Found" (exit code 4) but if I run the exact same command from cmd.exe it works (exit code 0). What are the differences in the environment between the two? [image] T…

HOLY CRAP I GOT IT! So after changing my windows encoding to use Beta UTF-8, it still didn't work, but poking around the nodes a bit I noticed that the "hyphen" for the -r option was PHYSICALLY LONGER than the hyphen used for the -p option. My assumption is that it was then ignoring the -r and thu…

Colin 19 April 2021 19:40 21

That is a good one, I hadn't come across that problem before. Well found.

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