Windows Command Code Resolved

[Dan Shafer]

GOod to know. Chipp mentioned something about escaping file names;  
presumably this has something to do with that.

Dan

On Jul 29, 2005, at 4:06 PM, Lynch, Jonathan wrote:

> Something to be wary of...
>
> If the file path to your document contains spaces, it might confuse  
> the
> start command.
>
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> Just to close the loop on my earlier question....
>
> Chipp and I walked through on the phone the use of the "start"
> command in the Win shell and for some reason, it worked fine. I think
> I was enclosing the file name in quotation marks earlier and when I
> took them out, voila!
>
> So the bare-bones version of this is simplicity itself:
>
> on mouseUp
>    if the platform is "Win32"  then
>      put "start" && the eBookContents of this stack into openCmd
>    else
>      put "open" && the eBookContents of this stack into openCmd
>    end if
>    put shell (openCmd) into shellResult
> end mouseUp
>
> Lots of error-checking and other stuff to add, of course, but this
> gets me to the next level.
>
> I appreciate everyone's help, esp. Jonathan, who went way above and
> beyond and, of course, Chipp.
>
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