Txt File Open w/Auto Exec.vi

[DL84]

I'm trying to open a txt file in notepad (opens by default) using the auto exec.vi.
Using several configurations, all of which I made sure could be ran in cmd in stand alone first.

I've tried a few configurations with it but can't seem to work...
In the configuration I gave a picture of below, the error 2 pops up, that I'm out of memory.  There is nothing else running on this system, and with 1GB of memory I can't understand this error.
"LabVIEW:  Memory is full.
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NI-488:  Write detected no Listeners."

The other configuration was to type a string into the "Command Line" input.  Below are the ones I tried...
1) C:\"Documents and Settings"\dleach\desktop\test.txt
Error 123 occurred at System Exec.vi. Command was "C:\"Documents and Settings"\dleach\desktop\test.txt

2) notepad C:\"Documents and Settings"\dleach\desktop\test.txt
Opens Notepad, with error popup "The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect."

am I doing this wrong?

Message Edited by leachdor on 09-12-2007 11:30 AM

[smercurio_fc]

You should be doing something like this to open a text file in Notepad:

Message Edited by smercurio_fc on 09-12-2007 01:07 PM

[DL84]

Ah you beat me to the post.

I got the other way to work by changing the address to short hand.

ie..took a long path name (greater than 8 places) and shortened to use "pathxy~1."
Works like a charm.  Didn't need to do that in the dos box alone, I guess they were calling different builds of MSDOS.
(literally all i did was hit backspace 2x, and add a ~1 lol)

[smercurio_fc]

Yes, well, the days of 8.3 names are long gone, and you should not be relying on that little trick as it's not standard. You should be using the method I showed you as it uses full pathnames and is the accepted way of doing it.