The SH verb works for me on WinXP also:
SH 'c:\t.txt'
42
'wordpad.exe' SH 'c:\t.txt'
42
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David Mitchell
On 6/17/2011 8:24, Devon McCormick wrote:
> This works for me for J7 on Windows XP:
> fork 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\Excel.exe'
>
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 9:02 PM, William Szuch<[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> In J602 I could execute various programs as part of a job when a script was
>> loaded,
>>
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>>
>> Eg. wd 'winexec ...'
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>> This was used to open excel workbooks, word reports, notepad etc.
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>>
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>> As WD is not supported in J701 I have not been able to achieve the same
>> functionality in J701.
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>>
>>
>> Any help greatly appreciated.
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>>
>> Regards
>>
>>
>>
>> Bill Szuch
>>
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