Phil Pennock wrote:
On 2006-07-12 at 11:00 +0200, Hakim Cassimally wrote:
[...]
I could never quite work out where these names were registered
(they're not in PATH, but are the short names which respond to "start
progname" in command line, I rifled through the registry a couple of
times to try to work it out, unsuccessfully).
I found it, when I got fed up with not being able to run PuTTY that way;
I've since added a few others. The main limitation is that you're
limited to .exe, from what I recall, so no .bat. The other is that
[...]
Odd. You are talking about W-r / Start | Run... thingie ?
Give the .cmd extension a whirl in lieu of .bat, that may work. Either
works for me so perhaps your PC's ext associations are fupped uck.
David
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