From: "Bernard Delmée" <bdelmee@...>
Date: 2003-08-20T05:05:14+09:00
Subject: Re: How to open a file in windows

Suggestions to use "start" are correct but I think they'll
always launch a DOS console. Besides, the command interpreter
will have to be "command" on win9x/ME but "cmd" on NT/2000/XP.
What you will want is an extension which exposes the ShellExecute
win32 API, if there is such a beast... Otherwise, it should be
possible to wrap it using the Win32API class, given that the
proc signature is the following:

HINSTANCE ShellExecute(
    HWND hwnd,
    LPCTSTR lpOperation,
    LPCTSTR lpFile,
    LPCTSTR lpParameters,
    LPCTSTR lpDirectory,
    INT nShowCmd
);