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   Tom Del Rosso to Kenny McCormack   
   Re: Oh well, nevermind   
   02 Sep 19 20:47:06   
   
   From: fizzbintuesday@that-google-mail-domain.com   
      
   Kenny McCormack wrote:   
   > In article ,   
   > Tom Del Rosso  wrote:   
   >> I overlooked the obvious.  The file was calling itself because I   
   >> named it shutdown.cmd.  Of course.  Of course.   
   >>   
   >> Just putting cd\ on the first line fixes that.   
   >   
   > Or you could explicitly wrote shutdown.exe (Or .com, I assume it is an   
   > .exe, but I haven't checked) in the batch file.   
      
   The thing is, when you use the GUI to start a script, you don't give any   
   thought to its name!   
      
   Even more so when you're only clicking on a shortcut and the script is   
   out of sight in another folder.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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