What file extensions are considered to be executable?
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From: Karl E. Peterson on 16 Apr 2010 13:16 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. :-) -- ..NET: It's About Trust! http://vfred.mvps.org
From: Tony Toews [MVP] on 20 Apr 2010 17:13 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 -- Tony Toews, Microsoft Access MVP Tony's Main MS Access pages - http://www.granite.ab.ca/accsmstr.htm Tony's Microsoft Access Blog - http://msmvps.com/blogs/access/ For a convenient utility to keep your users FEs and other files updated see http://www.autofeupdater.com/ Granite Fleet Manager http://www.granitefleet.com/
From: Karl E. Peterson on 20 Apr 2010 17:16
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> -- ..NET: It's About Trust! http://vfred.mvps.org |