I always thought I had that working. Perhaps I broke it again in the recent
build. I am nowhere where I can try it for several days now but will try to
get you an answer at some point if you don’t work it out.

If you can enter a command to run, try:

cmd /c start

Good luck.
Steve
On Wed, 1 Nov 2017 at 18:51, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote:

> Helge Hielscher posted on Wed, 01 Nov 2017 18:17:28 +0000 as excerpted:
>
> > is it possible to lauch a browser from within pan 0.142 under windows
> > 10?
> >
> > If yes: what command-line do you use?
> >
> > I always get "Failed to execute helper program (Invalid argument)" in
> > the log.
>
> All my MS knowledge is now either a decade and a half out of date, or
> rather vague hearsay, so this may not be of much help, but...
>
> How I'd try to approach something like that on Linux, and how I'd have
> tried to approach it on MS back at the turn of the century before I
> switched from slaveryware to freedomware, is by writing a script as the
> command to try to invoke.
>
> That way you can code whatever you need, debugging you can have it dump
> to a temporary output file to see if it gets to that line at all and the
> state of various environmental variables, necessary parameters to feed to
> the actual binary you /intended/ to run, etc, into the script.
>
> Back then that script would have been a *.bat file.  These days, I
> believe MS can run *.wsh (Windows scripting host) files, and can even run
> bash shell scripts like I'd create for Linux, on the MS Windows Linux
> subsystem.
>
> Don't forget to to set the executable attribute/permission-bit on the
> script after you've created it, before trying to run it. =:^)
>
> --
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