Re: st: path for winexec?

[Steven Dubnoff <sdubnoff@circlesys.com>]

At 09:33 AM 5/27/2008, Martin wrote:

> I am wondering whether there is a way to make Stata find executables on its
> own.
Windows can find a properly installed program on its own and it is 
smart enough to use the extension to know which program to find.  So 
if you type:

        shell c:\mydir\my.pdf

at the Stata prompt, windows will launch Acrobat reader, which will 
then display my.pdf.

The only downside of this technique is that you may see an open 
command prompt window.

Best,

Steve




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