any quote characters that appear; otherwise chose a suitable escape
character based on the type of the program.
+@ifnottex
+@findex w32-shell-execute
+ The function @code{w32-shell-execute} can be useful for writing
+customized commands that run MS-Windows applications registered to
+handle a certain standard Windows operation for a specific type of
+document or file. This function is a wrapper around the Windows
+@code{ShellExecute} API. See the MS-Windows API documentation for
+more details.
+@end ifnottex
+
@node Windows Printing
@section Printing and MS-Windows