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techie Guest

Run winmerge via Apply command

2005-02-05 18:02

Can't run winmerge with this command - winmerge just doesn't start. Without "start" prefix winmerge starts, but it unable to find temporary file.

═════════════════════════ Apply command ═══════════════════════════
 Enter command to process selected files
 start /wait winmerge ! !^!                                       
 Patterns: !! - exclamation mark; ! - file name
 !?prompt?default! - prompts user for parameter value
 !& - selected files list (quoted, space-delimited)
 Local command patterns: !^! - file name from local panel
────────────────────────────────────
 ( ) Remote command           (x) Local command
 [ ] Apply to directories     [ ] Execute recursively
 [ ] Show results in console
────────────────────────────────────
                         [ Ok ]  [ Cancel ]

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Re: Run winmerge via Apply command

2005-02-07

techie wrote:

Can't run winmerge with this command - winmerge just doesn't start. Without "start" prefix winmerge starts, but it unable to find temporary file.

I'm not quite sure what are you tring to achieve. But in case you do: "start" is not a program, it is internal command of Window shell (cmd.exe). So you must run cmd.exe to interpret it. You do it like this:

cmd.exe /c start /wait winmerge ! !^!

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Lorand Guest

After save

2009-02-17 16:21

I successfull started Winmerge with this command:
"C:\Program Files\WinMerge\WinMergeU.exe" "!^!" "!" (Local Command)

But after i save the modifications in remote file and close the WinMerge i lose the modifications.

Why?

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