Running external programs

[U Kvistborg]

Hi I have tried on my mobile device windows mobile 5 with jcl9 i think the jvm is called, but I am unable to start any external programs on this platform, I have done it several times on normal windows but I get an IOException on this particular platform.

java.io.IOException: Unable to start program

Runtime.getRuntime().exec("\\Windows\\welcome.exe");
I can start this program by clicking on the file in total commander but not with above line.

I am using eswt so perhaps there might be any other way of doing this ?
I do not nessesarly wanna start a program but a lnk would be just as fine.

Any one know how to perhaps ?

[U Kvistborg]

I have found that on windows mobile 2003, that the Runtime.exec method is not really implemented, it simply returns the exception, unable to start program, does any one know if this is the case for the J9 on windows mobile 5 aswell ?
The reason for that it have not been implemented on windows mobile 2003 is that on this platform it is not possible to pass the file pointer for System.out and .err to a child process, as is typical for Runtime.exec.