Re: [WINTCL] cmd.exe error

[Brian G. <bgr...@mo...>]

Have you tried:

    exec shortcut_to_my_file.lnk  &

?
-Brian

Mark A Jarmus wrote:

>
>
>
>All,
>
>I am working on a PC WINDOWS system (OS WIN 2000) and trying to exec a
>shortcut to an executable file from my TCL program. I get the following
>error :
>
>'File name' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable
>program or batch file
>
>The executable that I am trying to run was given to me by someone else (I
>don't have control of the source code to the executable I am trying to run)
>which I am running within my TCL application. If I exec the executable file
>within my TCL program it runs fine, however I have created a shortcut to
>the executable so that I can control various attibutes (foreground color,
>background color, width of window, height of window, etc.) of the window
>that is launched when the executable is running.
>
>1) exec cmd.exe /k my_file.exe &
>or
>2) exec cmd.exe /c my_file.exe &
>
>When I run either of the above two commands from the console and from
>within my TCL program, both of these launch the executable file (namely,
>"my_file.exe") in the background, however, I can't preset the attributes of
>the window that appears before it appears on the CRT ... which is something
>I want to do.
>
>A) exec cmd.exe /c shortcut_to_my_file &
>
>When I run the above command from the console I get the error message I
>listed above (namely, 'File name' is not recognized as an internal or
>external command, operable program or batch file). When I run the above
>command from within my TCL program ... nothing "appears" to happen ...
>meaning ... I don't get any TCL error messages and I don't see the window
>appear on the CRT as I do when I run from the console.
>
>
>Can anyone tell me how I can call or execute a "SHORTCUT" to an executable
>from within my TCL program???
>
>Any help you can provide will be greatly appreciated.
>
>TIA,
>Mark
>
>
>
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