Launching Wordpad

Brian Cassidy · 29th March 2001, 00:44

I am using 1.1o to package an APL application.
I have documentation in a Wordpad file and launch that with
Exec '"$SYSDIR\write.exe" "$INSTDIR\readme.doc"'
This works fine on W2KPro but does not work on W98SE.
Any ideas?

justin · 29th March 2001, 05:58

For one, don't use 1.1o. It is flawed (and has some pretty scary bugs). Get 1.1z from
http://www.nullsoft.com/free/nsis/

The problem with write not working in win98SE is that on win9x write.exe is in $WINDIR, and in winnt it is in sysdir. There are two ways of dealing with this:

Option 1: check for existence of each:

IfFileExists "$SYSDIR\write.exe" 0 2
Exec '"$SYSDIR\write.exe" "$INSTDIR\Readme.doc"'
Jump 1 ; don't execute twice
Exec '"$WINDIR\write.exe" "$INSTDIR\Readme.doc"'

Option 2: use ExecShell:

ExecShell open '"$INSTDIR\Readme.doc"'

-Justin

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29th March 2001, 00:44	#1
Brian Cassidy Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Canada Posts: 1	I am using 1.1o to package an APL application. I have documentation in a Wordpad file and launch that with Exec '"$SYSDIR\write.exe" "$INSTDIR\readme.doc"' This works fine on W2KPro but does not work on W98SE. Any ideas?

29th March 2001, 05:58	#2
justin Moderator Alumni Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: USA Posts: 315	For one, don't use 1.1o. It is flawed (and has some pretty scary bugs). Get 1.1z from http://www.nullsoft.com/free/nsis/ The problem with write not working in win98SE is that on win9x write.exe is in $WINDIR, and in winnt it is in sysdir. There are two ways of dealing with this: Option 1: check for existence of each: IfFileExists "$SYSDIR\write.exe" 0 2 Exec '"$SYSDIR\write.exe" "$INSTDIR\Readme.doc"' Jump 1 ; don't execute twice Exec '"$WINDIR\write.exe" "$INSTDIR\Readme.doc"' Option 2: use ExecShell: ExecShell open '"$INSTDIR\Readme.doc"' -Justin