Re: Calling Excel & Access from inside a CL.

["Michael Naughton" <michael_naughton@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, Doug. I did know that, but for some reason we had trouble getting it to work -- maybe because not everyone had a default program set up? But you're right -- it's the first thing to try, and if it works you're home free.


Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Generally speaking, a far simpler approach is to let the OS pick the
> executable for you (including the path to it).  If you just execute "start "
> followed by the name of the file you want to open, Windows will check the
> registry for the default program and launch it for you.  This works for most
> any type file, including PDF's, Excel, Word, HTML, etc.   The START command
> in Windows has many options, try "start /?" from a command prompt to review
> them.


Mike Naughton
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