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Re: problems starting windows compiled help files with start-process


From: Mathias Dahl
Subject: Re: problems starting windows compiled help files with start-process
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 12:02:04 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.90 (windows-nt)

Dieter Wilhelm <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> writes:

> I'd like to be able to open a windows (on XP) compiled help file
> (.chm).  It works well with `shell-process' in just giving the shell
> the .chm file as argument.  But I can't get it to run with
> start-process.  Probably I need to call a viewer for this file.  I
> googled around and found that the internet explorer is supposed to
> act as "viewer" for these help files.  The next hurdle is where to
> find the executable, I can't find iexplorer.exe or iexplore.exe on
> my disk.

Have you tried using `w32-shell-execute'?

(w32-shell-execute "Open" "blabla.chm")

/Mathias


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