Thanks Rick.

>
> This is a precompiled existing function in SwiftForth.
>
> \ name of a program that windows can "run" and that the rest of
> \ the string is the command line to pass to it
>
> : >SHELL ( addr n -- ) 512 R-ALLOC >R
> BL SKIP 2DUP BL SCAN 2SWAP THIRD -
> ( a n a n) R@ ZPLACE R@ 256 + ZPLACE
> HWND 0 R> DUP 256 + 0 SW_NORMAL ShellExecute SHELLERR ! ;
>
> S" MY.EXE" >SHELL
>
> Thursday, August 29, 2002, 3:08:00 PM, you wrote:
>
> AoD> Hello again,
>
> AoD> I am adding an exe that is a short ebook to the help file menu.
> AoD> Are there some examples of using code
> AoD> to run an exe?
>
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