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Bwah!
Don't belong. Dangerous, like you. Can't be controlled. Can't be trusted. Everyone could just go on without me and not have to worry. People could be what they wanted to be. Could be with the people they wanted. Live simple. No secrets.
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Jessica - May 29, 2007 5:37:02 pm PDT #1728 of 25496
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
tommyrot - May 29, 2007 5:42:17 pm PDT #1729 of 25496
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I think my fave is the error branch:
O NOES
tommyrot - May 29, 2007 6:09:05 pm PDT #1730 of 25496
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
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).
§ ita § - May 29, 2007 6:36:21 pm PDT #1731 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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...
tommyrot - May 29, 2007 6:46:59 pm PDT #1732 of 25496
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
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.
§ ita § - May 29, 2007 7:16:56 pm PDT #1733 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Not sure if there's a "read only" switch for DOS.
Then I don't think I understand your suggestion.
tommyrot - May 29, 2007 7:26:52 pm PDT #1734 of 25496
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Well, I was hoping there'd be one. Maybe I'll look when I'm sober.
tommyrot - May 29, 2007 7:40:57 pm PDT #1735 of 25496
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
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....
§ ita § - May 29, 2007 8:00:44 pm PDT #1736 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The switching of the file's status wouldn't work, because I'm trying to solve a work problem where I need a gazillion files open to do what I'm doing, but I don't want to lock the editors out--I'm just using most of them for reference.
Don't sweat it, tommy. I appreciate your effort, but I was hoping to take advantage of work already done, in a...what was that app?...PowerTools or whatever sort of way.
tommyrot - May 29, 2007 8:04:18 pm PDT #1737 of 25496
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Actually, this part:
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.
I've been wondering for years - if I could do that I could save myself a bit of file maintenance work on one of our client's systems.
But really, the sucky thing is that Windows lacks a decent scripting language (.bat files don't count). Isn't there a new scripting facility in Vista?