Note: startapp is not functional on other OS platforms than Windows®.(startapp application [filename])
The startapp function executes another Windows® application.
Note: startapp is not functional on other OS platforms than Windows®.
application specifies the application to start. The argument must be a string. If application contains no valid path specification, the function browses the environment variable PATH for the application.
The optional string argument filename specifies a file to be opened.
If successful, the function returns an integer value greater than 0. Otherwise, the function returns 0.
Examples
The following example starts Notepad and opens the file sample.txt.
(startapp "notepad" "sample.txt")
The following example starts Windows® Explorer.
(startapp "explorer")
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