So does anybody know this or not?
The question concerned opening a file when one does not know
the associated application, or the path to the associated application.
Like folks who hate microsoft and they go and delete the notepad.exe in leiu of {InsertFreeOfficePackageHere}.
They then re-associate all their .txt,.log,etc with their editor of choice. How to open a .txt file from my VB6.0 using their preferred application.
Digital Error post looks helpful, but I cannot seem to find any help with ShellExecute.