At 10:21 AM 11/14/00, David Kimmer wrote:
>Hello list,
>
>I have a real problem with using PowerPoint viewer to launch some PPT files.
>I have used several methods to detect the exisitence of the file and
>executable and a correct path is returned for both the file to open and the
>application to open it with. However PowerPoint viewer is opened but an
>error is return saying 'PowerPoint Viewer is unable to read myPowerPoint'.
Any chance there's a space in the file or path name? If so, you might want
to use baShortFileName() to get the 8.3 equivalent. Buddy API's
baRunProgram() provides return codes, too.
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