Re: Launching a Word document in a Java program under Windows 98

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From: Joi Ellis [TeamB]
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 13:37

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Luc BONAMEAU <alorsc@excite.com> wrote:

> I know that the command processor is cmd.exe under NT and Comand.com under
> Win9x. The problem is that Win9x does'nt do any link between extensions and
> programs, so the command
>             Runtime.getRuntime().exec("command /c \"" +
> c:\docs\anydoc.anyextension+ "\"")
> doesn't work.

I think you need to launch the editor binary directly.

  Runtime.getRuntime().exec('C:\path\to\word\word  "' +
     c:\docs\anydoc.anyextension+ '"')

I don't remember if \ has to be escaped in a windows-platform or if you
can substitute '/' to get around that.

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