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  1. Nov 27th, 2000, 04:39 AM #1
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    Hi everyone, I normally use the shell command to open a program, or giver the user a commondialog box. Can someone please tell me how to open a file other than an executable?

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  2. Nov 27th, 2000, 04:58 AM #2
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    Hi Alex,

    Depends what do you want to do with the file?, if it's a BAT file you could open it as you would a text file, read lines into a string and process them accordingly...
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  3. Nov 27th, 2000, 05:00 AM #3
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    Sorry, I mean just excecute / run it though it were a program / exe for example. Nothing fancy like writing to this. Thank you

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  4. Nov 27th, 2000, 05:08 AM #4
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    Thumbs up ShellExecute

    Perhaps you can try the ShellExecute API function
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    That's the one! Thank you!

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  7. Nov 27th, 2000, 05:18 AM #6
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    Thumbs up ...

    you also can take a look on this page for more information about the ShellExecute API function

    http://www.vbapi.com/ref/s/shellexecute.html
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