Different behaviour of Shell-Command 370 vs. 400

toenne

hi all,

up to version 3.70 it was possible to raise a command by give it in one string to the shell command as in

shell('notepad.exe c:\test.txt');

in 4.00 you need to split the called program and the given parameters in two arguments like

shell('notepad.exe','c:\test.txt');

otherwise you get the message that there are unexpected charaters on the command line.

so far, so good, the way i did it in 3.70 was never documented.....

my open question is:
why must i add the fully path to the exe-file, allthough they in the known path, like

shell('c:\windows\system32\notepad.exe');

for not getting the message 'File not found". Do I have to / Can i set the path explicitly ?

thx a lot

(now back in seriousness)
toenne