can't call notepad

Hello list, The following works fine on my PC, but hasn't worked on a friend's PC ever since she got a new machine; it's running XP as before. When invoking notepad, I get a black (could be DOS box) flash briefly after agreeing to the Rebol security check, then notepad launches with the txt file. However, there's not even a black flash on her machine. When calling the FTP programme, her machine plays the "connected" .wav alert, but no WS-FTP screens are visible. I've shown the variations I've tried to call the external programmes. Is anyone able to shed some light on this problem? Regards, Rosemary REBOL [] main: layout [ origin 100x100 space 5x5 button "Text 1" [call reduce ["notepad.exe" rejoin [c:\rebol\fred.txt]]] button "Text 2" [call reduce ["notepad.exe" c:\rebol\fred.txt]] button "Text 3" [call "notepad.exe c:\rebol\fred.txt"] ;button "Text 4" [call reduce ["notepad.exe" rejoin ["fred.txt"]]] button "FTP 1" [call "c:\program files\WS_FTP\WS_FTP95.exe"] button "FTP 2" [call "c:\program files\WS_FTP\WS_FTP95.exe"] ] view center-face main -- message ends

Try call/show "notepad.exe c:\rebol\fred.txt" or call/shell "notepad.exe c:\rebol\fred.txt" if using 2.7.6 On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Rosemary de Dear <rcm-formix.com.au> wrote:

> Hello list, > The following works fine on my PC, but hasn't worked on a friend's PC ever > To unsubscribe from the list, just send an email to > lists at rebol.com with unsubscribe as the subject.

just thought I'd explain Graham's help in the latest Rebol version, 2.7.6, they "fixed" having to display the DOS shell for all commands which was very annoying for 99% of uses, especially when you call commands which are repeated over and over (like copy, dor example). This is why there is now a /show refinement. it seems quite logical that this is what is happening to you, since you speak of a new machine, so there is a good chance, you downloaded rebol from scratch on that machine. HTH! -MAx On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 9:28 PM, Graham Chiu <compkarori-gmail.com> wrote:

Does a simple... call "notepad.exe" work for her? (It does with my XP.) If so, then that should narrow it down to a path problem with the examples you gave. -- Carl Read. On Wednesday, 14-May-2008 at 11:15:37 Rosemary de Dear wrote,

Hi Rosemary, Your first and second examples filename will be loaded by rebol as type url!, so this could cause problems with unintended percent encoding of urls. I would avoid that way. Instead, you could use string! (as you have) for Windows local paths, or convert rebol file! types to Windows local paths. Eg. call rejoin ["notepad.exe " "c:\rebol\fred.txt"] call rejoin ["notepad.exe " to-local-file %"/c/rebol/fred.txt"] Note you might have to surround the local path with quotes when it contains a space. call rejoin [ {notepad.exe } {"} to-local-file %"/c/program files/fred.txt" {"} ] Something like that. Regards, Anton. Rosemary de Dear wrote:

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Anton Rolls <anton-wilddsl.net.au> wrote:

> Instead, you could use string! (as you have) for Windows local paths, > or convert rebol file! types to Windows local paths. > Eg. > > call rejoin ["notepad.exe " "c:\rebol\fred.txt"]

>> call/console ["echo" %/c/file.txt]

>> call/console ["echo" %/c/file with spaces.txt]

You don't even need the notepad there call "c:\rebol\fred.txt" will bring up the default editor On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 10:04 PM, Gabriele Santilli <santilli.gabriele-gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Anton Rolls <anton-wilddsl.net.au> wrote: >> Instead, you could use string! (as you have) for Windows local paths, > To unsubscribe from the list, just send an email to > lists at rebol.com with unsubscribe as the subject.