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From: gchow@ipsa.reuter.com (george chow)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: The colon (":") trick...
Message-ID: <1990Jul18.192930.6508@ipsa.reuter.com>
Date: 18 Jul 90 19:29:30 GMT
Reply-To: gchow@itcyyz.UUCP (george chow)
Organization: I.P. Sharp Associates, Toronto Ont., Canada.
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I have a question wrt the colon trick. The colon trick is the way to force
MSW to just come up with your specified application. You do this by prepending
a colon to the name of the application. Now, this has always worked for me
'till today when I tried it with DEC's VT320 emulator. A question I have is:
does the colon trick work with all application or is it something that a
developer must code in. I do notice that all the application that I use the
colon with comes from Microsoft. Can anyone clarify? BTW, this is with
Windows/286 2.11, not Windows 3.0.

Thanks in advance for any enlightenment...

George Chow