02-23-2006 06:38 PM
02-23-2006 08:44 PM
Search the palettes for System Exec.vi. This allows you to run any executable by making a command line call. I'm guessing that Adobe Reader and Notepad have a simple command line interface to specify which file you wish to open. In fact, it may be as simple as "c:\windows\notepad.exe c:\temp\blah.txt", where c:\temp\blah.txt is the file you wish to open in Notepad. Note that I'm guessing on the path to notepad.exe there, I'm not sure where it resides, exactly.
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02-24-2006 01:40 AM
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02-24-2006 11:07 AM
Thanks Dennis. I knew that VI existed, but when I was answering the post late last night I didn't feel like looking for it, and I figured somebody else would point it out by the time I got to work this morning. 🙂
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02-24-2006 11:11 AM