John Baird
Coatesville, Pennsylvania, United States
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Windows API functions
David:
What's the difference (if any) between running Shellexecute and using Run \N
for running a windows executable?
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>Bruce
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>>Yep. In fact, this is my fix that's going out to test now -- replace the
call to ShellExecute with a cruddy old ! command. But, it works, so for now
we're doing it that way.
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>I'd check for differences in the autoexec.bat and config.sys between the
test machines and yours.
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>>Good points. I'll try fixing these, but I'm wondering if this can cause
the different behavior we're seeing?
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>API calls can be overly sensitive to things like this at times. The Win32
API is supposed to be more tolerant and resist failure but you never know
what will trip up any individual call.
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