Opening other applications from within Revolution

[Alex Shaw]

hi

Had the same problem in the past..

Found the best solution (so far) is to use an external command launcher, 
at the mo i use..

on Windows: runfile.exe
http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?500000001891

on OS X: launch
http://web.sabi.net/nriley/software/

.. and use rev's shell command to launch.

regards
alex

Recently, Stgoldberg at aol.com wrote:

 >> I'm not interested in importing data from the Excel sheet into Rev, just
 >> opening an existing Excel application from a command in Rev.   I 
still can't
 >> seem to do this.   I've put the Excel file (and also the Excel 
application)
 >> into the same folder as the Revolution stack and just issued the command