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It had to happen. OK, probably, anyway... This shit had me LOL!
COUNT!!1:
HAI CAN HAS STDIO? I HAS A VAR IM IN YR LOOP UP VAR!!1 VISIBLE VAR IZ VAR BIGGER THAN 10? KTHXBYE IM OUTTA YR LOOP KTHXBYE
FILEZORZ:
HAI CAN HAS STDIO? PLZ OPEN FILE "LOLCATS.TXT"? AWSUM THX VISIBLE FILE O NOES INVISIBLE "ERROR!" KTHXBYE
Gris,
after the fiasco that is the Palm Lifedrive, I'm not going to get excited about any palm/palm-related product. My lifedrive is a friggin doorstop after 1 year of use.
I HAS A VAR
Bwah!
I think my fave is the error branch:
O NOES
I would really love to be able to open files read-only from my right mouse click menu.
You're talking XP, right?
You could write a DOS script that would do the opening, assuming you could pass the file name (of the highlighted file) to the script. Then you'd add the DOS script to the "open with" option (which I know is easily done).
You could write a DOS script that would do the opening, assuming you could pass the file name (of the highlighted file) to the script
Would that be app independent?
You know what? I miss switches. I mean, I assume and even know they're still out there, but last time I tried to research Eudora's startup switches it was so overly difficult...
Would that be app independent?
DOS can tell the underlying XP OS to open a particular file and XP then picks the correct app based on the usual file-type association. For example, I type an Excel file name on the DOS command line and Excel starts with the file I typed open.
Not sure if there's a "read only" switch for DOS.
Not sure if there's a "read only" switch for DOS.
Then I don't think I understand your suggestion.
Well, I was hoping there'd be one. Maybe I'll look when I'm sober.
ita, would having a DOS script that first changed the file to read-only, then opened it, then changed the file back to writeable work?
Of course, one disadvantage of this would be if the file is read-only in the first place, it will end up writeable.
Of course, the big question is still whether a DOS script can get the highlighted file name passed to it as a parameter when the script is called by the right-click/open-with functionality.
eta: Also, there is a switch to open a file read-only for editing....