From: Karl E. Peterson on
Tony Toews [MVP] wrote:
> Karl E. Peterson <karl(a)exmvps.org> wrote:
>
>>>> Yeah, I was thinking it was in Win95, but I just checked and it's not
>>>> there. So perhaps tacking on .CMD in cases where the evar isn't
>>>> defined may not be the best strategy? That said, I'd bet very little
>>>> software written with VB today will ever see such an environment, nor
>>>> would such an assumption likely matter if the purpose was to find
>>>> executable files on such a system. :-)
>>>
>>> Well, in my case, with the Auto FE Updater, I can see folks wanting to
>>> do some processing using a CMD file once my utility does it's stuff.
>>
>> Oh yeah, but are any of them running Win95?
>
> Not to my knowledge. Although a few years ago I did have a request to
> solve an A2.0 problem which dates from 1994.

So odds are pretty (extremely?) high you'll always find that PATHEXT
e-var, then. :-)

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From: Tony Toews [MVP] on
Karl E. Peterson <karl(a)exmvps.org> wrote:

>So odds are pretty (extremely?) high you'll always find that PATHEXT
>e-var, then. :-)

Yeah, but .... I'm going to put in the code in case it isn't there.

Tony
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From: Karl E. Peterson on
Tony Toews [MVP] wrote :
> Karl E. Peterson <karl(a)exmvps.org> wrote:
>
>> So odds are pretty (extremely?) high you'll always find that PATHEXT
>> e-var, then. :-)
>
> Yeah, but .... I'm going to put in the code in case it isn't there.

As did I. <g>

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