start.exe: New feature allowing to specify the shell operation name

Paul Chitescu paulc at voip.null.ro
Tue Sep 26 18:10:04 CDT 2006


On Tue, 26 Sep 2006, Dan Kegel wrote:
> >The new /O[peration] command line option allows to specify a shell
> >operation other than "open".
> > This is very valuable for testing or implementing actions from shell scripts.
> 
> Hmm.  I don't see that option in the Win XP documentation:
> http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/start.mspx
> 
> There's already one clash (/l) between wine's start and Windows'.
> I hesitate to say that adding another extension is a good idea.
> I'd feel better if the help mentioned that this is a Wine-specific extension.
> - Dan
 
There's more than one clash - /r[estored] vs. /realtime - but at least I 
used something currently unallocated.

Should both be marked wine specific in usage?

Paul Chitescu



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