Exercises in Frustration
I kept typing start “E:/Apps/Editplus 2/editplus.exe” into a Windows 2000 console today and was frustrated as to why the darned thing would open up another empty console instead. Then I had the bright idea of looking at the help: START ["title"] …blah… [command/program]. The stupid thing assumed anything in quotes would be a window title. Someone gift the author a copy of Joel’s Book, this breaks my model of how command line programs work completely. I can’t imagine what harm a command like START [command/program] [/TITLE="title"] …blah… would have done.
14 May 2002 8:24 pm

