associating setuptex.bat with cmd shortcut

associating setuptex.bat with cmd shortcut

[Michael Goerz]

Hi everyone,

at the end of the context essentials installation on Windows, it says

> When you want to use context, you need to initialize the tree with:
>
>   C:\context\tex\setuptex.bat C:\context\tex
>
> You can associate this command with a shortcut to the cmd prompt.

What does that mean, and how do I do that (associating the command with
a shortcut to cmd)?

Sorry, haven't had to do anything serious on Windows for years...

Thanks,
Michael
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Re: associating setuptex.bat with cmd shortcut

[Vnpenguin]

On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 19:52, Michael Goerz <goerz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> at the end of the context essentials installation on Windows, it says
>
>> When you want to use context, you need to initialize the tree with:
>>
>>   C:\context\tex\setuptex.bat C:\context\tex
>>
>> You can associate this command with a shortcut to the cmd prompt.
>
> What does that mean, and how do I do that (associating the command with
> a shortcut to cmd)?
>
> Sorry, haven't had to do anything serious on Windows for years...

I have a shortcut of cmd.exe on my desktop (WinXP) and I add after
cmd.exe like following :

C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /K C:\context\tex\setuptex.bat

So when I run this shortcut I have already ConTeXt env.

HTH,
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Re: associating setuptex.bat with cmd shortcut

[Michael Goerz]

On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Vnpenguin <vnpenguin@vnoss.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 19:52, Michael Goerz <goerz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>> at the end of the context essentials installation on Windows, it says
>>> When you want to use context, you need to initialize the tree with:
>>>   C:\context\tex\setuptex.bat C:\context\tex
>>> You can associate this command with a shortcut to the cmd prompt.
>> What does that mean, and how do I do that (associating the command with
>> a shortcut to cmd)?
> I have a shortcut of cmd.exe on my desktop (WinXP) and I add after
> cmd.exe like following :
>
> C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /K C:\context\tex\setuptex.bat
Ah, it's the /K switch that I wasn't aware of.

Thanks so much!

Michael
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