bug with autorun on Windows?

[Frank D. Engel, Jr.]

Can you autoplay a batch file?  For some reason, I thought that only 
works in some versions of Windows, and not others?

On Sep 30, 2004, at 3:46 PM, Jan Schenkel wrote:

> --- Chris Sheffield <revlist at cableone.net> wrote:
>> That is what I ended up doing.  And that works fine.
>>  I'll Bugzilla this
>> though since it doesn't seem to be behaving the way
>> it should be.  Thanks.
>>
>> Chris Sheffield
>>
>
> Actually, I wouldn't call it a bug at all ; I used
> this OS-ability in FoxPro for example, to distinguish
> at startup between projects by placing them in
> different directories and using differently configured
> shortcuts.
> Revolution is just copying what the OS is handing it
> as its default folder. In this case, Windows is
> launching the application from the root of the CD ;
> you're just telling it to launch an application that
> is inside another directory.
> You might get around it by inserting a batch file in
> the mix that does a 'cd' to the correct directory
> before launching your executable.
>
> Jan Schenkel.
>
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Frank D. Engel, Jr.  <fde101 at fjrhome.net>

$ ln -s /usr/share/kjvbible /usr/manual
$ true | cat /usr/manual | grep "John 3:16"
John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten 
Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have 
everlasting life.
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