There is Auto Start guide at J Wiki
  http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Guides/Auto_Start

This is good info, so you may want to put it
in an "Auto Open" guide.

Regarding, re-using J session, the Explorer
file settings have a DDE section. Maybe it
could work together with J DDE support?


--- "Sherlock, Ric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> This may be something obvious to hardened Windows J users, but I
> couldn't find anything on the forums or the Wiki, so I thought I'd post
> it.
>  
> I often find myself browsing through folders containing *.ijs files in
> Windows Explorer and wanting to see what was in a script. Registering
> *.ijs files so j.exe starts and loads them, isn't too hard (I think this
> might be done during installation but I'm not sure?). The command line
> that runs is:
> "C:\progra~1\j601\j.exe" "%1"
> 
> [You can find this as follows:
>   From and Explorer window: Tools/Folder Options/File Types/
>   Select "IJS" from Registered file types
>   Click on Advanced and Edit the "open" action
> ]
> 
> Unfortuately on my system this action has the default Windows name of
> "open" when, from a J point of view, it is actually a load. What I
> really wanted was for j.exe to start & just open the script file.
> After a bit of reading & experimentation I found that the following
> command line would do just that. 
> "C:\progra~1\j601\j.exe" -js "open '%1'"
> 
> I renamed the existing action to "load" and created a new action called
> "open" with the above command line in the "Application used to perform
> action" edit box.
> 
> Now when I right click on a *.ijs file in Explorer, I'm given the option
> to open or to load it. I'm happy. 
> (Well almost! At the moment each script I "open" starts a new copy of
> J.exe. This has advantages but sometimes I'd like to have them opened by
> one copy. The other thing that I tried was dragging & dropping script
> file(s) on an open *.ijx window but that obviously isn't supported)
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