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From: Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Running an editor from ANSI C
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2024 14:24:29 +0300
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On Fri, 7 Jun 2024 10:47:57 -0000 (UTC)
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

> On Fri, 07 Jun 2024 02:37:42 -0700, Keith Thompson wrote:
> 
> > As for portability, I'm not aware of the $EDITOR convention being
> > used on non-POSIX systems.  
> 
> Can non-POSIX systems offer anything better? Any worthwhile
> alternative?
> 
> No.

Yes. The one below is better.
ShellExecute(NULL, "edit", filename, NULL, NULL, SW_NORMAL);