What does Windows 'shell' expect?

[Mike Bonner]

Could also use shortfilepath to make things less quote'ey
put "start" && the shortfilepath of "my really\long file\path.exe" into
tShell
get shell (tShell)

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Phil Davis <revdev at pdslabs.net> wrote:

> Hi Graham,
>
> As you [and I] now know,"start" is a non-trivial command - it has lots of
> choices you can make in running it. To see them all, enter this at a Windows
> command prompt:
>    start /?
>
> Or you can see them in a LC window using my 'Shell Command Help' plugin,
> available in RevOnline.
>
> Best -
> Phil
>
>
> On 5/12/11 8:01 AM, Graham Samuel wrote:
>
>> Mark, thanks - your suggestion means that the example in the docs is just
>> plain wrong (not enough quotes - apparently you need an empty set of quotes
>> before the one with the program name). But I doubt if this will solve the
>> problem of a program name with a space in it. So I still want to know what
>> 'shell' expects. Also, what if the .exe isn't in "Program Files"? It looks
>> as if the 'start' function makes some assumptions about the path to the
>> program. It is hard to step out of the LC environment without learning a lot
>> of other stuff...
>>
>> I will do a few tests and then at least add a comment on the 'launch'
>> dictionary entry - but I am scared of my own ignorance on this subject.
>>
>> Graham
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 12 May 2011 12:16:42 +0200,  Mark Schonewille<
>> m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com>  wrote:
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>>
>>> Graham,
>>>
>>> Try this:
>>>
>>> set the hideConsoleWindows to true
>>> put "start"&&  quote&  quote&&  quote&  "myProgram.exe"&  quote into
>>> myShell
>>> get shell(myShell)
>>>
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>>>
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>>>
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>>> On 12 mei 2011, at 12:03, Graham Samuel wrote:
>>>
>>>  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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