OK. Duh. It's in the manual, it even gives notepad.exe as an example. "Run Program". Probably could have GUESSED that. I'll crawl back under my stone. Thanks anyhow. M ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michelle Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "MapInfo Discussion Group" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 5:00 PM Subject: MI-L: MB: Opening Notepad during MBX run. > Hi folks, > > I've written a nice little utility which is saving my colleagues a lot of > time & stress. However, the icing on the cake would be to have a > 'reporting' facility. Nothing fancy - I'm just want to write a few strings > to a txt file summarising what happened during processing. I can write the > txt file from Mapbasic, but what's the command to open Notepad? I'm > envisaging a button "click here to view report" that will open notepad and > the appropriate file. Any suggestions on finding notepad.exe would be > interesting too, though if it's too complicated I'm happy to assume it'll be > in c:\windows on most computers. > > Thanks > > Michelle. > _______________________________________________________________________ List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MapInfo-L" in the message body.
