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It's asscoiated with Windows rather than IE (it probably uses some IE or edge stuff under the hood, but you don't need IE installed to use it iirc) if you rename an html file to .hta on windows you get elevated permissions that a web page wouldn't normally have. This is powerful but potentially dangerous (i'd only ever use it for my own tiddlywikis) by default a tw running from hta can save to itself with no plugins required. With my plugin it can run other executables (my plugin is also safe for browser versions, it just won't attempt to do anything in that case) Also I * think * my plugin predates twexe the app :D On Tuesday, 4 May 2021 at 15:45:02 UTC+1 Mark S. wrote: > What is meant by a "hta" type file? Do all browsers support it? I had the > notion that it was associated with Internet Explorer. Support for IE is > supposed to end this summer. > > I was confused by the name at first, because there is an existing product > called "twexe" which bundles up TW files into executables. > > Thanks! > > On Tuesday, May 4, 2021 at 6:36:43 AM UTC-7 Mohammad wrote: > >> James, >> This is one of great tools which will always be useful! >> >> Thank you very much for the update! >> >> Best wishes >> Mohammad >> >> >> On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 5:01 PM James Anderson <james.w....@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Incase any windows/hta users still use this: >>> >>> I've updated this plugin. the source is here: >>> https://github.com/welford/twexe and you can grab a copy of the updated >>> plugin from http://welford.github.io/ >>> >>> The big change is that you can run the contents of a tiddler as a batch >>> file, which should help keep things portable (between machines / >>> environments, not cross platform). >>> >>> It will create a temporary twexe.bat file in %TEMP% fill it with the >>> contents of the tiddler and then run it. You can change the default >>> temporary location via $:/plugins/welford/twexe/tmpdir >>> >>> in the attached image i have two examples, one will run my local node.js >>> tw, the other just an example batch file that prints hello and the first >>> arg passed to it. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to tiddlywiki+...@googlegroups.com. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/49e93d80-9a3e-449e-bbd4-9a007b0782dcn%40googlegroups.com >>> >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/49e93d80-9a3e-449e-bbd4-9a007b0782dcn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/69fab1b3-3742-45a8-be37-7fadf9e658c0n%40googlegroups.com.
