On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 06:02:29PM -0500, Jonathan Levinson wrote: > Hi Glenn, > > I have a question for you about skynav FOP. Why on Windows do you use ".cmd" > as the extension of the fop command file - fop.cmd, rather than fop.bat? > > We are going to be deploying skynav FOP at many sites and it would be great > if we could rename the ".cmd" file to a ".bat" file since it would require > fewer changes to our interface code. > > Doing some research it seems that on Windows 7, Vista, and XP there is little > difference between ".cmd" and ".bat" files, and differences only become > significant on Windows 98. Am I wrong? Did I misread an article on the Web? > > Thanks for the excellent work you have done! Our Middle Eastern team tested > your code and found nothing wrong with it in the context of our reporting > tool, which calls FOP to do rendering.
Would renaming cause problems for users who depend on the name fop.cmd? Should we maintain a copy named fop.bat? Simon --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
