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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.


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