From: dallas@texas.usa   
      
   On 4/15/2022 10:00 AM, John Stockton wrote:   
   > On Friday, 15 April 2022 at 00:03:24 UTC+1, Dallas wrote:   
   >> On 4/14/2022 5:34 PM, John Stockton wrote:   
   >>> However, I do have Notepad++ - and   
   >>> "C:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++" -ro $rajesh.txt   
   >>> does what I want (and in a better font!).   
   >>>   
   >> I was thinking that you needed a solution that did not involve   
   "not-provided" software like NP++   
   >> that you have to install.   
   >   
   > Working Notepad++ is better that not-working IE11.   
   > But if    start iexplore.exe %DIFF_TXT%     opens Edge which opens   
   %DIFF_TXT% as ReadOnly, then I actually need to do nothing.   
   > Except that Microsoft might "upgrade" Edge to be a page editor ...   
   >   
   > In my PCs, Notepad++ is installed already .  But I'd prefer something   
   already in  Windows.   
   > If Notepad or Wordpad understood ReadOnly, I'd use it.   
   >   
   > An additional requirement is compatibility with 64-bit Windows.  I have the   
   late Vernon Buerg's LIST, but cannot run it.   
   >   
   > If I end up writing something, I might call it MIKADO.  My system would   
   automatically transfer it with my batch file.   
   >   
      
   I loved Vernon Buerg's LIST program.   
      
   For a while I created "bridge" scripts to allow me to use those older   
   utilities even if all they   
   understood were 8.3 formatted file names.   But when I switched to a 64-bit   
   Windows I had to   
   regretfully leave them behind and implement PowerShell versions of some of   
   them.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)