launching an outside file

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assari

Try this

Extern "win32"
Function ShellExecute(hwnd:Int, lpOperation$z,lpFile$z,..
     lpParameters$z,lpDirectory$z, nShowCmd:Int)="ShellExecuteA@24"
End Extern

out:Tstream=WriteStream("c:\result.txt")
WriteLine(out,"hello there")
CloseStream(out)

ShellExecute(0,"open","c:\result.txt","","",3)

see here for how to use ShellExecute.