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From: scot@netcom.com (Scot Campbell)
Subject: Re: Launch another application from within smalltalk/V
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Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1995 14:39:23 GMT
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mmcdon11@scu.edu.au (Mark Ian Mcdonald) writes:

>I want to have a button that launches another windows application. I know it
>is possible. Can anyone tell me how?

In Win16 the old API was WinExec (I think) and is was envoked through a 
class method File(class)>>execute:,  so simply File execute: 'myprog' 
should do it.

Now under Win32 the API is CreateProcess (I think) but ST/V users should
be able to continue to use the File class method.
