Re: [ANN] Lua For Windows v5.1.3.3 Public Alpha2 released

[Thomas Lauer <thomas.lauer@...>]

"Eero Pajarre" <epajarre@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 3:06 PM, Thomas Lauer <thomas.lauer@virgin.net> wrote:
> > Stephen Kellett <lua@objmedia.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >> Well, why would you make a link between a GUI action and typing a
> >> command line? :-)
> >
> > Let's see... perhaps because there is no such link?
> >
> > Double clicking an icon in an Explorer window is one thing, being able
> > to launch programs from the command line w/o typing the name of the
> > required app is quite another: just google for environment variable
> > PATHEXT.
> >
> 
> Are you sure about this?

No;-)

I (belatedly) realised that CMD.EXE (the standard shell) is much better
these days when it comes to working with registered files and file types
from the command line. (I am using 4NT since ages and have not bothered
to check this in full...)

Sorry for the noise.

-- 
cheers  thomasl

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