Launch Another Windows-based Application From Within TinyTERM

Question :

How do I launch another Windows-based application from within TinyTERM?

Answer :

There is a command in TinyTERM's CScript language that will launch a Windows-based application: spawn(). Here is the function definition (from the CBFR.wri file included with TinyTERM):

Void Spawn
Spawn( iWait, sCmdString, sArguments )
Passes sCmdString to the operating system to be run
with the arguments sArguments. Note that the command name,
without an extension, must always be the first argument
in sArguments. Note that you cannot use quotes as part
of sCmdString or sArguments, so if you must launch an
application with a space in its Windows filename, you
must use DOS 8.3 filenames to refer to that application
with the spawn command.



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iWait
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Wait until spawned process ends before running
next command
No wait
Detach spawned process from the console
Wait for spawned process to complete its startup
procedures before continuing with the next command

For example, the following script command will launch the Notepad application and open the file 'untitled.txt':

spawn( 0, "notepad.exe", "notepad untitled.txt");

Question :

So how would this work with, say, Adobe Acrobat?

Answer :

The command would look like this for Acrobat Reader 5.0:

spawn(1,"C:\\Program Files\\Adobe\\Acrobat 5.0\\Reader\\AcroRd32.exe","AcroRd32 D:\\path\\document.pdf");

Note the use of \\ as a directory separator. You can also use / if you prefer.