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The standard MkDir() function can create only one directory, it can not create subdirectories at one time. This function allows you to create multiple directories (directories inside directories). Delphi 4+ have the ForceDirectories() routine which does the same thing. It is declared in the FileCtrl unit.

uses
SysUtils, FileCtrl;
…
procedure MkDirMulti(sPath: string);
begin
if sPath[Length(sPath)] = [...]

The easiest way to open a document, program or URL is to use the Windows API ShellExecute() function. Thanks to this function you can execute almost everything in Windows.

uses ShellAPI;
…
(* sObject - (string) the program, document, URL, … that you want to
** open. This can be:
**
** a document - ‘C:\My Documents\Tips.txt’
** a program - ‘notepad.exe’ [...]