Pete, Clicking on an icon, should, if you are to achieve anything within windows, should initiate a 'process' if it doesn't initiate a process, then nothing will happen
Re not finding a suitable telnet object - firstly finding an object is a process - i.e. the process of searching for something ( probably a file) with a name that starts with the characters 'telne' and t that's one of the reasons for putting the .exe at the end of the identity of what you want it to find, and pass control to i.e indicate you want windows or the command processor to find, load into memory, and pass control to telnet.exe, not telnet.vbs, or telnet.dll etc.. The thing is if it found what it thought was a suitable object, then the question remains - was it what you consider to be the required object? Re When I click ont he batch file icon, the command window opens to a DOS prompt and just sits there, waiting a (typed) command. Most of what I suggested was to try to identify what the OS was doing in response to your efforts in (double) clicking on the icon on the desktop as in the full effect within windows of your actions, where you indicate "I manually associated the batch file's extention with the Command Processor." Indeed, a problem, or deviation from the normally expected response of windows was indicated by your statement: "Before I did that, the batch file was opened by Edit when I double-clicked it." However, it being near the end of my working period, I hope that someone else can help you solve your problem JimB > > I don't mean to quibble, but I was clicking on a batch file icon, not a process. > > > If the command processor could not find a suitable "telnet" object, wouldn't it emit an error message? When I click ont he batch file icon, the command window opens to a DOS prompt and just sits there, waiting a (typed) command. > > > I manually associated the batch file's extention with the Command Processor. Before I did that, the batch file was opened by Edit when I double-clicked it. > > Thanks. > > -- > ---------------------------------------- > The WIN-HOME mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned > LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: > http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html > > -- ---------------------------------------- The WIN-HOME mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html
