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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
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Subject: Re: Bug: can not start a w32 GUI program from Emacs
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> Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 13:50:33 +0100
> From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
> CC: Mathias Dahl <mathias.dahl@gmail.com>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >    (w32-shell-execute nil "explorer.exe" ".")
> 
> 
> Ah, thanks. It is quite surprising. I never guessed that ShellExecute 
> could take a program as a parameter too.

The MS documentation for ShellExecute clearly says that it can accept
programs, not only documents.