Thanks George, that explains it perfectly.

On Monday, November 5, 2018 at 5:11:04 PM UTC, gneuner2 wrote:
>
>
>
> On 11/5/2018 11:49 AM, Sean Kemplay wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I am trying to open windoes explorer from Racket using the following -
>
> (system* "cmd" "start" "explorer.exe")
>
> However it is not working and #f is being returned. This works fine from 
> Go and even VBScript!
>
> Anyone know what I am missing?
>
> Kind regards,
> Sean
>
>
>
> On Windows the path isn't searched (for whatever reason).  You need to do 
> something like:
>
> (let [
>       (path (find-executable-path "explorer.exe"))
>      ]
>   (system* path)
>   )
>
>
> George
>

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