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from: CHRIS LEE
date: 1998-01-15 05:58:00
subject: Re: Win95 shortcuts

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From: Chris Lee 
You could create a batch file that runs e32 -b100, taking the filename
as a parameter.
CSL.
>-----Original Message-----
>From:	"Sammy Mitchell" [SMTP:sammy.mitchell@semware.com]
>Sent:	January 14, 1998 11:45 AM
>To:	"TsePro - Mailing List"; CHRIS
>Subject:	Win95 shortcuts
>
>A user notes the following:
>
>>I want to have the TSEditor available via the Win95 "SendTo" feature,
>>but open the files in Binary Mode....  It ignores my -b100 setting on
>>the command line I created in the shortcut (C:\TSE\E32.EXE -b100 "%1")
>>and opens the files in "regular" mode...
>
>Our response was:
>
>>From out tests, it appears that Win95 tacks the "dragged" filename onto the
>>end of the program to execute.  Thus, at least as far as I can tell, what
>>gets passed is simply
>>
>>c:\tse\e32.exe filename
>>
>>From what I know it is not TSE that ignores the -b100 option, but Win95
>does
>>not pass that option.
>>
>>One solution is to set the startup directory to some known value and then
>in
>>an autoload macro check to see if that directory is the one desired and
>load
>>the command line file in binary mode (as a single file).
>
>Is there something we're missing here?  Can you think of other ways to do
>this?
>
>Thanks!
>
>Sammy
>
>
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