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Re: Opening/displaying a text file [message #64787 is a reply to message #64786]

Mon, 19 January 2009 04:18

Gaurav
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On Jan 19, 3:51 pm, jimmyb...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi, I'm writing a GUI for some code in IDL and want to include a help
> document. Is there a command to open say a .txt file?
>
> To explain a bit further: I've tried openu, but that doesn't display
> the file. Do I need to read in the text and re-display it or can I use
> a command to open that .txt file, as if it were opened seperate of
> IDL?

Yes, you can easily do that. Try:

SPAWN, 'notepad.exe c:\myFolder\myFile.txt', /noshell, /nowait

Cheers,
Gaurav

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		Re: Opening/displaying a text file By: Maarten[1] on Tue, 20 January 2009 01:17
		Re: Opening/displaying a text file By: jimmybobs on Mon, 19 January 2009 05:50
		Re: Opening/displaying a text file By: R.Bauer on Mon, 19 January 2009 04:25
		Re: Opening/displaying a text file By: Gaurav on Mon, 19 January 2009 04:18

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