An EXE that does exactly the same job as ShellExecute   

Hi there,

Is there any exe file in window which launches programs exactly 
the same way ShellExecute() does?

I know "cmd.exe" works somewhat similar, but I'm not quite sure
if it works exactly the same way.

In short, I'm wondering if there is a program like this:

WinMain( ..., lpCmdLine, ... )
{
   return ShellExecute( ..., lpCmdLine, ... );
}

And yes, I am lazy enough to avoid writing even this simple program...

date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 01:20:04 -0700   author:   beil

Re: An EXE that does exactly the same job as ShellExecute   

"beil"  wrote in message
news:50E8500C-5F15-4C4C-946F-99E56558C9C2@microsoft.com...
> Hi there,
>
> Is there any exe file in window which launches programs exactly
> the same way ShellExecute() does?
>
> I know "cmd.exe" works somewhat similar, but I'm not quite sure
> if it works exactly the same way.
>
> In short, I'm wondering if there is a program like this:
>
> WinMain( ..., lpCmdLine, ... )
> {
>    return ShellExecute( ..., lpCmdLine, ... );
> }
>
> And yes, I am lazy enough to avoid writing even this simple program...

    It's not likely that any easily available program does exactly that
because it is so simple that it isn't worthwhile.  There would likely be at
least some parsing of the command.

    If that's what you want, why can't you simply use CMD.exe?  The results
should be equivalent for most commands.

-- 

- Gary Chanson (Windows SDK MVP)
- Abolish Public Schools

date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 10:28:24 -0400   author:   Gary Chanson

Re: An EXE that does exactly the same job as ShellExecute   

beil wrote:

> And yes, I am lazy enough to avoid writing even this simple program...

What ?!
You need exactly 1 second to write it and 2 seconds to compile it.

date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 22:24:22 +0200   author:   jeremy