On Sat, May 04, 2002 at 04:33:47AM +0100, Andrew Dunbar wrote: > > > This is what I mean by "properly XP". The Windows > > > equivalent to a lot of command-line options might > > > sometimes be the context menu... > > > > I couldn't understand this sentence. > > "XP" as in "Cross Platform". > Most Windows users never use the command-line. > Many things that can be accomplished (but not all) > with the command line, are done in a different way on > Windows. And that is by adding "context menu" items > for the "filetypes". You can support printing this > way for instance, and MSWord does this. You right- > click on an MSWord file and the other functions > appear in the popup menu. It would be up to the > Windows installer to set this up AFAIK - it's done > by creating Registry entries. Sometimes these entries > use command-lines, sometimes they use more arcane > Windowsisms that only Windows hackers understand. > All mostly hidden from the user.
Aren't these done using commandline args, behind the scenes? pat
