From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/35888 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Idris Samawi Hamid" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Batch files and texmf Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 13:15:53 -0600 Organization: Colorado State University Message-ID: References: Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1186773373 32176 80.91.229.12 (10 Aug 2007 19:16:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 19:16:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: adrury@gmail.com To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Aug 10 21:16:10 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IJZxv-0004uq-9x for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Aug 2007 21:16:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 886E11FDF5; Fri, 10 Aug 2007 21:16:06 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 31899-03; Fri, 10 Aug 2007 21:15:53 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A10A2202C8; Fri, 10 Aug 2007 21:15:53 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B82C9202C8 for ; Fri, 10 Aug 2007 21:15:51 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 31989-03-4 for ; Fri, 10 Aug 2007 21:15:47 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from trueband.net (director.trueband.net [216.163.120.8]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 841431FDF5 for ; Fri, 10 Aug 2007 21:15:46 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: (qmail 20034 invoked by uid 1006); 10 Aug 2007 19:15:44 -0000 Original-Received: from ishamid@colostate.edu by rs0 by uid 1003 with qmail-scanner-1.16 (spamassassin: 3.1.4. Clear:SA:0(0.1/100.0):. Processed in 0.867244 secs); 10 Aug 2007 19:15:44 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO trueband.net) (172.16.0.4) by -v with SMTP; 10 Aug 2007 19:15:43 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 7811 invoked from network); 10 Aug 2007 19:15:36 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO your-b27fb1c401) (75.104.82.83) by -v with SMTP; 10 Aug 2007 19:15:36 -0000 In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.20 (Win32) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:35888 Archived-At: Hi Adrian, On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:29:06 -0600, Adrian Drury wrote: > I read the list in digest form - sorry my response won't be threaded in > properly! > > How about this for your question, Idris? Pure DOS batch file stuff. I > tested > it with notepad instead of Acrobat, but I assume it should be close to > working as shown here. > > > @ echo off > > IF "%1"=="" GOTO NOARG > > for /R C:\context %%n IN (.) DO IF EXIST %%n\%1 ( > Echo Found %%n\%1 > start Acrobat.lnk %%n\%1 > GOTO END > ) > > :NOTFOUND > echo Couldn't find %1 > GOTO END > > :NOARG > echo Specify a file name to find > > :END This works beautifully! Thank you so much!!! Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________