Re: Re: Pine-info Digest, Vol 18, Issue 1

David Morris <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.pine.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>

On Tue, 4 Jul 2006, Stormy wrote:

> good idea Chris..  I'm having problems  implementing it.. trying:
> C:\> start/wait "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORER.exe"
>
> or netscape's path, or putting that "start/wait .." in mailcap for pine to
> pickup doesn't work (just opens a blank dos window in win2k).. haven't tried a
> batch file yet.. might try when i have more time...

Technically, there should be a space between start and /wait though the
cmd.exe parser tolerates concatenation, the internal system call used by
pine may not recognize the /wait as a flag.

Another trice to try would be:
   cmd.exe /c start /wait ...
in particular if you want to use a .bat file.
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