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From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,
	Mathias Dahl <brakjoller@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: problems starting windows compiled help files with start-process
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 02:29:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <456E3407.5000106@student.lu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d5753f9o.fsf@hans.local.net>

Dieter Wilhelm wrote:

>> Have you tried using `w32-shell-execute'?
>>
>> (w32-shell-execute "Open" "blabla.chm")
> 
> Exactly what I needed, works perfect, thank you.
> 
> Sad that these functions are not mentioned in the Emacs manual for
> (emacs)Windows Processes.  I'm coding mostly under Linux and the w32-*
> functions are not available when trying `describe-function'.


That is because no one has had the time to rewrite that part.

Reading that part I also found that it is about running DOS processes on 
MS Windows. I suggest that we rename to to reflect this.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-30  1:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.1267.1164765489.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-11-29 11:02 ` problems starting windows compiled help files with start-process Mathias Dahl
2006-11-30  1:16   ` Dieter Wilhelm
2006-11-30  1:29     ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2006-11-30  4:29       ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-11-30  6:52         ` cvs best practise [was: problems starting windows compiled help files with start-process] Dieter Wilhelm
2006-11-30 19:49           ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-12-01  0:34             ` cvs best practise Dieter Wilhelm
2006-12-09 23:01   ` best practise: hiding not defined symbols? [was: problems starting windows compiled help files with start-process] Dieter Wilhelm
2006-11-29  1:57 problems starting windows compiled help files with start-process Dieter Wilhelm

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