[Jprogramming] Open file with associated application

[Sherlock, Ric]

Thanks for that informative answer. I had got there in the end with
Oleg's help. The key bit of information that I hadn't twigged to was the
alternative delimiter: 127{a.

I was trying to create 2 parameters for winexec with only " and/or *,
while also enclosing filenames with quotes, and couldn't see a way to do
it. From your post I've now also discovered that 'DEL' is a standard
noun for 127{a. (like 'LF' etc).

On the bright side my floundering helped me to stumble on an error in
win32api.dat that can now hopefully be corrected!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: programming-bounces at jsoftware.com 
> [mailto:programming-bounces at jsoftware.com] On Behalf Of bill lam
> Sent: Thursday, 12 July 2007 15:17
> To: Programming forum
> Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Open file with associated application
> 
> bill lam wrote:
> >   wd 'winexec ',DEL,'"cmd /C "C:\Documents and Settings\bill\My 
> > Documents\bill.xls"',DEL,'sw_hide'
> sorry typo,
> wd 'winexec ',DEL,'cmd /C "C:\Documents and Settings\bill\My 
> Documents\bill.xls"',DEL,'sw_hide'
> --
> regards,
> bill
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