Windows XP System Call

Fairlight fairlite at fairlite.com
Wed Jun 30 14:27:31 PDT 2004


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> In his input.prc I put:     @keyv  then: system  "start explorer.exe"<68 

I would just caution anyone that if you -are- starting anything that
launches IE, you do so by calling IE directly rather than relying on
file associations.  At one point, I tried "start file.html" alone, and it
would bring up IE, but if you didn't re-focus on the calling application's
window before closing IE, it would act like it was unable to start the
program at all, and you'd get an error message.  fP may or may not be prone
to this, but it's a gotcha I hit with system calls in general.  Calling IE
directly fixed it.  And it seemed to be -only- IE, as MS Photo Editor,
Acrobat, and several other apps all worked fine. 

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