Re: Problems with the "mwindows" switch

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

"Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org> wrote in message 
news:mkam2p$olr$1@dont-email.me...
> On 05/29/2015 02:24 PM, Randy Brukardt wrote:
>>
>> (No one navigates to a directory to click something.)
>
> All this time I thought I was somebody, but it turns out I'm no one.

I should have made it clear that I was only talking about clicking on 
programs in a directory, not ordinary files (which might run a program). 
One's much more likely to use the desktop or start menu. But clicking on a 
program in a directory is the only way that a CUI program would be run from 
the GUI if one doesn't register it (which is useless, because the output 
doesn't go anywhere).

I admit I've occassionally clicked on CUI programs and batch files, but only 
by accident. They're only supposed to be run from the command line (and the 
majority of them take arguments that won't be provided by clicking on them 
anyway). I occassionally click on a GUI program that I have under 
development, but even that is very rare (and it's unique to developers).

If you're clicking on programs in directories outside of development, I have 
to ask why. And nothing about developers is typical for Windows, it doesn't 
have anything to do with the way most people use Windows.

                                      Randy.


                                    Randy.