in reply to Which MS Windows?

How are you using notepad? Simplistically `notepad`; is all you need.

True laziness is hard work

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Re^2: Which MS Windows?
by lantfred (Initiate) on Sep 26, 2010 at 00:02 UTC

    Thanks for the advice...I will check in the Win package...it is a problem related to Vista (and possibly W 7)

    Incidentally, "notepad" on its own does not work on Vista but it does under W2K and XP...hence the question.

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      Incidentally, "notepad" on its own does not work on Vista

      It works for me under Vista?

      The executable is located (via the path): 

      C:\test>which notepad.exe
C:\Windows\system32\notepad.exe

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      Which is the same place as it was in XP.

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        Thanks for the inspiration!...Much appreciated... I have just written a "whereis" equivalent for windows. (I don't know where you got "which" but it is not in my standard setup...nor on the ones at work and I have to target unknown machines which do not have perl installed...Now why didn't I think about that earlier?

        Thanks again

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