OpenEuphoria

Re: Displaying HTML

• Posted by "Juergen Luethje" <j.lue at gmx.de> Feb 06, 2004
• 490 views

Matt wrote:

> Juergen Luethje wrote:
>>
>> isaac-topica wrote:
>>
>>> Actually, this should work just fine.
>>
>> What do you mean by "should"?
>> I tested it, and it did *not* work on my system.
>> Did you actually test it? If you did so, on what system?
>> Which Windows version, and which Euphoria version?
>> What *exactly* did you do? Facts please ...
>>
>>> The result will be that the HTML file is
>>> displayed in the default browser,
>>
>> As I previously wrote, that was *not* the result, that I got.
>> When I called
>>    integer code
>>    code = system_exec("ReadMe.html", 2)
>> actually nothing happend on my system. The file "ReadMe.html" was
>> in the same directory as the regarding Euphoria program.
>
> On Win2K, system_exec() does nothing, but system() opens the file in IE
> (my default browser).

Thanks for the information, Matt.
On my computer (Win 98), system() also does *nothing*. Strange.

Regards,
   Juergen