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Subject: Re: Bug: can not start a w32 GUI program from Emacs
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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. And I see it is even already 
mentioned in the doc string.