Purpose: describe the package

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What is winutils?

Who wrote it?

Where's it run?

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Example :

[David Gravereaux] mailto:davygrvy@pobox.com recently wrote in news:comp.lang.tcl

 Message-ID: <7enq0u4h5t4hkcrb564rco60okvh5fcttf@4ax.com>


 You can simplify that down a whole lot with my winutils extension and it's
 winutils::shell command.  It's like `eval exec [auto_execok start] $file &`, but
 without the momentary command prompt flashing up on the screen.

 http://sf.net/projects/tomasoft

 package require winutils
 proc LaunchEditor {myfile} {
    # try the "edit" command first.
    if {[catch {winutils::shell -v edit $myfile}]} {
        winutils::shell -v open $myfile
    }
 }
 proc Launch {args} {
    eval winutils::shell -v open $args
 }

This makes use of associations and even does full URLs in the exact manner and
behavior of the "Run..." dialog off the Start menu.

 % Launch mailto:davygrvy@pobox.com?subject=hi%20there&body=was%20up?
 % Launch http://tcl.activestate.com
 % Launch somefile.txt
 % Launch netstat -a 2

I forget if I added the "edit" command to my .tcl association or whether the
ActiveTcl installer did it for me..

 % LaunchEditor c:/progra~1/tcl/lib/tcl8.4/init.tcl

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[Pat Thoyts] has suggested the
GetLocaleInfo() API
[http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/intl/nls_34rz.asp]
join winutils.

What other pieces of win32 make a nice fit here?




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http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1616&release_id=511

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/tomasoft/winutils-0.2.zip
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