One grumble I have had for a while with fork (at least on Windows) is its lack
of any result indicating success or failure:
fork 'xwy'
fork 'd:\TestJ.xlsm'
fork 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\Excel.exe'
fork 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\Excel.exe'
fork 'D:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\Excel.exe'
fork 'D:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\Excel.exe d:\TestJ.xlsm'
The first 4 failed with no result. The last two succeeded with no result.
SH 'Excel.exe' NB. Worked
42
SH 'xwy' NB. Failed
2
SH 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\Excel.exe' NB. failed
2
The verb SH returns the result from ShellExecute:
"If the function succeeds, it returns a value greater than 32. If the function
fails, it returns an error value that indicates the cause of the failure."
#define ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND 2
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David Mitchell
On 6/17/2011 8:24, Devon McCormick wrote:
> fork 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\Excel.exe'
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