Open an External App ?

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Karl

Hi All,

In a batch file how would you go about opening an External
program such as notepad ?

And is there anyway to open a directory on a network as;

cd \\server\directory

doesnt work.

Thanks for your help
 
Karl said:
Hi All,

In a batch file how would you go about opening an External
program such as notepad ?
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start notepad

(see start /? for information)

And is there anyway to open a directory on a network as;

cd \\server\directory
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Opening it in what? You can't cd to a UNC path, if that's what you mean.
You can do
start explorer \\server

Ray at work
 
How would you open a bmp in the command prompt? You can TYPE it.

type \\server\directory\pic.bmp

That'll just return a bunch of nonsense though.

You can do:
start mspaint \\server\directory\pic.bmp

Ray at work
 
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