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Subject: Windows shell question (Partially OT)
From: "Chris K." <chrisk at mac dot com>
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 12:35:07 -0700
This is as much about ignorance of DOS as it is RB's Win32 shell class, but perhaps someone can help me...

I need to run a command that's not available globally in DOS. AFAICT, I can do this one of two ways:

- CD into the correct directory, then issue the command
- Issue the command from wherever I happen to be (where does the shell class start you off in, btw?), using the full path like this:
"\Program Files\Interesting Program Folder\thecommand.exe"

Being my understanding of RB's Win32 Shell class is that it's a one-off sort of thing, I don't believe I can do the first option. The problem with the second option is that it works fine as long as I don't need to pass command line arguments to the command, but unfortunately I need to. I also have no idea how multiple partitions or drives will affect things, but I'll cross that bridge once I can get this working on a system with only one partition.

Any thoughts?

Thanks!
-Chris


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