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Subject:Email popup in online help From:Lori Beard <lorib -at- MCCABE -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 30 Apr 1998 11:25:45 -0400
Hello again! It seems I am always asking for the impossible.
I am working in ForeHelp on NT creating online help for Windows users. I
would like to create a macro that would allow the user to simply click
the statement and have their message composition window for e-mail come
up with the address already in place.
I have been trying to use the macro ExecFile(`mailto:address',`address',
SW_NORMAL, error_message).
While the window has not come up, I am recieving error messages from the
mail program.
Does anyone have a solution that can be used by different mail programs?
