Ya thanks! - That works.
At 12:39 15/06/01 +0530, you wrote:
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>Hi Steve
>Are you using long filenames? Sometimes they can cause a problem with older
>Windows apps such as Write which have been "upgraded" to Win9x.
>
>If you really must have a long name, consider using the DOS 8.3 version of
>the path and file when passing it to open.
>
>e.g.
>open "My Documents\Somefile.txt" with "write.exe"
>
>will become
>
>open "mydocu~1\somefi~1.txt" with "write.exe"
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>Regards,
>Pranav
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>"Simply stated, it is sagacious to eschew obfuscation."
>--Norman Augustine
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><snip>
>I need to open a text file, which is in the same folder as the projector,
>in wordpad from a projector. I'm using
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>open the moviePath & "myfile.txt" with "C:\windows\write.exe"
>
>The problem is - wordpad opens but I get an error message saying "file
>My........ (etc.) not found." On the other hand the file opens Ok in
>notepad, although the formatting is lost.
><snip>
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