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  • I need a non-editing file display Window for script output.

    From John Stockton@21:1/5 to All on Sun Mar 5 03:52:11 2023
    I have scripts which generate (in %TEMP%) a plain-text file of batch code, and I want to read this file by eye, in a new Window, then manually copy'n'paste or drag'n'drop selected lines or contiguous groups of lines into a Command Prompt window, which
    will be ready and waiting. The lines all start "DEL" or "RD"; but must be thought about before execution. I want to be UNABLE to alter the characters displayed, apart from by scrolling.

    The batch command
    START MSEDGE %1
    does this, except that it does not work in Windows XP and that it opens a new tab rather than a new Window. In any case, EDGE would be "a sledgehammer to crack a nut", and I don't want to have a window/tab which looks in the least like any browser that
    I have open.

    So : is there an obscure but standard small part of Windows 10+ that can display a text file in a simple non-editable Window that supports Ctrl-C and vertical scroll? Can batch VBScript create such a Window easily?


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  • From JJ@21:1/5 to John Stockton on Sun Mar 5 23:21:32 2023
    On Sun, 5 Mar 2023 03:52:11 -0800 (PST), John Stockton wrote:
    I have scripts which generate (in %TEMP%) a plain-text file of batch code, and I want to read this file by eye, in a new Window, then manually copy'n'paste or drag'n'drop selected lines or contiguous groups of lines
    into a Command Prompt window, which will be ready and waiting. The lines
    all start "DEL" or "RD"; but must be thought about before execution. I
    want to be UNABLE to alter the characters displayed, apart from by scrolling.

    The batch command START MSEDGE %1 does this, except that it does not
    work in Windows XP and that it opens a new tab rather than a new Window.
    In any case, EDGE would be "a sledgehammer to crack a nut", and I don't
    want to have a window/tab which looks in the least like any browser that
    I have open.

    So : is there an obscure but standard small part of Windows 10+ that can display a text file in a simple non-editable Window that supports Ctrl-C
    and vertical scroll? Can batch VBScript create such a Window easily?

    First of all, this is a JavaScript newgroup. It's neither a batch file or a Windows newsgroup.

    That being said, MS-Edge is basically a Chromium, and I believe Chromium has
    a command line switch to open an URL in a new window instead of a new tab in
    an existing window. Also, you can use HTML Application (MSHTA; *.hta file)
    to make your own text file viewer. MSHTA is basically a HTML which is opened
    in a super lightweight MSIE browser which can use both VBScript and JScript.

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  • From Ezimene nimi Teine nimi@21:1/5 to John Stockton on Mon Mar 6 03:15:28 2023
    Afternoon. Can You help me with 100 000 dollars ?



    On Sunday, March 5, 2023 at 1:52:16 PM UTC+2, John Stockton wrote:
    I have scripts which generate (in %TEMP%) a plain-text file of batch code, and I want to read this file by eye, in a new Window, then manually copy'n'paste or drag'n'drop selected lines or contiguous groups of lines into a Command Prompt window, which
    will be ready and waiting. The lines all start "DEL" or "RD"; but must be thought about before execution. I want to be UNABLE to alter the characters displayed, apart from by scrolling.

    The batch command
    START MSEDGE %1
    does this, except that it does not work in Windows XP and that it opens a new tab rather than a new Window. In any case, EDGE would be "a sledgehammer to crack a nut", and I don't want to have a window/tab which looks in the least like any browser that
    I have open.

    So : is there an obscure but standard small part of Windows 10+ that can display a text file in a simple non-editable Window that supports Ctrl-C and vertical scroll? Can batch VBScript create such a Window easily?


    --
    (c) John Stockton, near London, UK. Using Google Groups. |

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