non-blocking way to open word files?

[Dave Beck]

Hey,

I'm writing a Windows app with Rev and need a way to open .rtf files with MS
Word from a script in my app. I've been using the shell command and
specifiying the long path name of the file, which works well except that it
is blocking. My Rev stack does not respond to mouse clicks etc. until the
user quits the Word instance that was launched from my script!

Is there a way around this?? It seems like there must be a non-blocking way
to launch applications.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
Dave