Non-blocking way to open MS Word files?

[Dave Beck]

Hey,

I sent this message to the list a while back but never got a response. I'm
hoping this time I'll fair better. I still haven't been able to come up with
a solution on my own.

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

Does anybody know a way around this??

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Dave