From: "Bernard Delmée" <bdelmee@...>
Date: 2003-09-27T07:27:08+09:00
Subject: Re: windows help!

> (The start dealy is a little bit of magic ... it's not just in the path, 
> or at least not on my machine).

It's a command internal to the command interpreter which gets
spawned by the backtick operator. This solution has the drawback
of launching a DOS console. A 3d possibility is the following:

require 'Win32API'

SW_SHOWNORMAL = 1
mydoc = 'index.html'

se = Win32API.new(
         'shell32',
         'ShellExecute',
         ['L','P','P','P','P','L'],
         'L' )

se.Call(0,'open',mydoc,0,0,SW_SHOWNORMAL)

This will launch the correct application associated with
"mydoc", not just html.