First comment is that
Grandfather's solution is much better than using notepad if these are supposed to be read-only files. With notepad the user can very easily accidently (or purposefully) delete/edit stuff and then save.
Second comment (assuming you still want to kick off a notepad) is that the above contains good info, especially on the Tk code. But to summarize what the tk code should run (e.g. system vs exec vs fork) I wanted to toss this list into the mix. It's from a recent
post of mine from the
Start windows .exe thread:
From the "programs and processes" section of
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