1. DEV team Request for Comments: Registry associations for Console Program files in Windows 9x

  • Posted by SDPringle Mar 09, 2011
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Presently, the installer sets up registry entries to associate ".ex" files with the Console Interpreter. On recent versions of Windows, you can run programs from the command line with these registry keys. However, console programs cannot be run from the command line without naming the Interpreter on Windows 9x systems. 

     c:> guru.ex 
     Bad command or filename

If run from the GUI, which calls eui.exe, a Window flashes for a split second on the screen and disappears. On recent versions of Windows, maybe_any_key() will be able to discover it is the only process attached to the screen and wait for you to press a key. These functions are not available on 95-Me machines. If run with euiw.exe, maybe_any_key() will always wait for you to press a key.

The only fixes for this are to associate .ex with euiw.exe on Windows 9x machines or to not associate .ex at all on Windows 9x machines. Which one?

The developer team wants to hear from you. So let us know what you think.

Shawn

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