Ric - I don't know how portable these are, but both of these work for me:
1) use "task": load 'task' shell_jtask_ '"C:\amisc\A name with embedded spaces.xls"' 2) write the command to a batch file and run that: '"C:\amisc\A name with embedded spaces.xls"' fwrite 'c:\amisc\runnwes.bat' 42 wd 'winexec "cmd /C c:\amisc\runnwes.bat" sw_hide' 0 Good luck, Devon On 7/11/07, Sherlock, Ric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
wd 'winexec *start "path/to/file"' doesn't work for me. The following does, but suffers from the same problem as I had before. wd 'winexec "cmd.exe /C start ',filename,'" sw_hide' I have looked through past posts in the forum but can't find an answer to my original question. I can open a filename containing spaces if I explicitly name the application that I want to run: wd 'winexec "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\excel.exe" "drive:/path to/file"' but if I want to "open a file with the application associated with that file extension" then I haven't found an answer yet. > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Oleg Kobchenko > You could try > > wd 'winexec *start "path/to/file"' > > See also in forum earlier. > > > On Jul 11, 2007, at 3:15 AM, "Sherlock, Ric" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I want to open a file with the application associated with > that file extension. > E.g. I have an Excel file (*.xls) and I want to open it in Excel. > > If the file name doesn't contain any spaces then the > following works on Windows. > > wd 'winexec "cmd /C ',filename,'" sw_hide' > > How can I accomplish something similar if the file name > contains spaces? > > Is it possible to come up with a platform agnostic version? > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > ______________________ > Moody friends. Drama queens. Your life? Nope! - their life, > your story. Play Sims Stories at Yahoo! Games. > http://sims.yahoo.com/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
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