Launch Acrobat reader with a PDF file

Problem:

Can the Acrobat reader be launched for a PDR file from Net Express COBOL?

Resolution:

Yes - use the WinApi ShellExecute.

A demo for ShellExecute can be found at our samples page in the Internet:

http://supportline.microfocus.com/examplesandutilities/nesamp.asp#Win32API

It demonstrates how to launch the Internet Browser for an HTML-file.

Changing the name of the HTML-file to the name of the PDF-file will start the Acrobat reader.

The ShellExecute expects a zero-terminated filename, e.g. by z" ".