I was saying to try it in the action box with the quotes. I don't think it will WORK but it won't hurt anything.

I understand you are LOOKING for a way to modify the way the program is opened. I don't know what switches would work with Spipe.exe. Have you tried to open a CMD window and type /? at the end of Spipe.exe and see if any help comes up?

I am going to look around and see if I can get a little more infor and better way to get this done.

Right now my fall back would be to put a batch file that does everything you want some where on the computer and put the path to it in your action box. Doing this does work, or at LEAST it did for me. It ALSO lets you edit the batch file remotely if you had to sometime down the road.

I will keep looking and let you know what I can dig up.

Thanks
One more question.

If we go the batch file/right-click association method, using a command line in the action box like:

Code: [Select]C:\SPIPE\RUN_SPIPE.BAT

Is there a way to use the filename(and location) that was right-clicked on as a variable in the batch file? Maybe something like:

Code: [Select]C:\SPIPE\RUN_SPIPE.BAT %1

This would help considerably.
The batch file as written requires operator input - TYPING in the filename and output location.
that is my question

How do you create your variable in your batch file, to be the name of the input file.

for example

file name is problem.inp

c:\[path]\spipe.exe < =filename.inp>=filename.out

also does would it automaticaly know the path to filename.

looks like we are close.

thanks for the help.anybody have any idea on how to set a variable to equal the file name?