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Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] trunk r116230: Fix bug
	#16558	with	w32-shell-execute	on remote file names.
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2014 19:29:10 +0200
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> Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2014 18:21:56 +0100
> From: grischka <grishka@gmx.de>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> > It does beg the question: what does
> > 
> >    (w32-shell-execute "open" "dir/file")
> > 
> > do, then?  You say it "fails", but does it signal an error?  If so, why?
> > My world view is very POSIX-centric, so I'm probably missing the obvious.
> 
> Maybe that ShellExecute doesn't like forward slashes (also not
> for the workdir parameter)?

No, that's not it (I already tried, got same results).