ShellCommand Changed?

Ken Ray kray at sonsothunder.com
Mon Apr 2 14:41:05 EDT 2007


On Mon, 02 Apr 2007 10:50:57 -0700, Scott Rossi wrote:

> When starting up Rev 2.8 on Windows (Vista), the shellCommand property is
> set to "cmd.exe".  After running revGoURL to launch a Web browser, the
> shellCommand is set to the full disk path to cmd.exe.
> 
> Is this expected behavior?  I believe this breaks previous usage of shell
> command, in that now one must script:
> 
>  if "cmd.exe" is in the shellCommand...
> 
> Or did this change some time ago and I just missed it?

Actually this is because the shellCommand gets set to $COMSPEC when you 
do revGoURL, and that contains the whole path...

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/



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