On Fri, 04 Feb 2005, M. Smith wrote:
> Is it possible to execute a desktop shortcut on Win2k using AS Perl?
>
> I used to do this on win98 by just adding .lnk to the path\file name
> and putting it in a system statement, but that doesn't work on 2k. And
> I tried guitest which seems should work, and didn't, but I'm not
> locked into that if there's any other thoughts.

Try something like

   system("cmd /c start shortcut.lnk");

Cheers,
-Jan


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