What does Windows 'shell' expect?
Graham Samuel
livfoss at mac.com
Thu May 12 06:03:22 EDT 2011
Following the instructions for "launch" in the LC docs, I tried the substitute method suggested:
get shell("start MyProgram.exe")
this didn't work using the name of the program in Windows Explorer, presumably because there was a space in the name.
I also tried to get a path to the program, which was reported by LC as
C:/Program Files/My Tests/My Test.exe
and this failed too, with Windows reporting that it couldn't find "Program". So shell doesn't like spaces. I thought that one could get rid of that by replacing space with "%20" but that didn't work either.
Pardon my ignorance, but what should I have done?
Graham
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