[program-l] Re: Benny Hill anyone?
- From: Mark Long <markalong64@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <program-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:12:55 +0000
Hi Laura
You can be offensive to MS if you like. It is a free world and it is more than
a year since I worked for them.
As for why there is no article, that is a good question. I don't know but
around the time that WMP6 was current, writing of KB articles was outsourced
and so every article was weighed for cost versus benefit. I would imagine that
fewer than 1 in 100 users know that there are command line options and so it
didn't make the cut.
KBs and docs got pretty crummy around that time in my opinion.
Mark
From: lauraeaves@xxxxxxxxx
To: program-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [program-l] Re: Benny Hill anyone?
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 06:54:00 -0500
Hi Mark --
No offense to M$, but why is there only a retired article for WMP 6 when WMP11
is out? And why aren't the switches documented in the help topics?
Thanks for the reference. It did give some useful switches. But there is a real
deficit in documentation when it comes to command line options. I wonder if M$
is trying to suppress and eventually eliminate the command line stuff
altogether -- but I don't think they can as this is the best and currently only
interface for many low level system commands...
Anyway, thanks for the looksee. I should go to the microsoft support site
myself more often. Maybe next time.
--le
----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Long
To: program-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 6:41 AM
Subject: [program-l] Re: Benny Hill anyone?
No problem.
The article is at http://support.microsoft.com/KB/241422
From: lauraeaves@xxxxxxxxx
To: program-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [program-l] Re: Benny Hill anyone?
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 06:36:56 -0500
Hi Mark --
Where is this documented?
I looked in the help file but couldn't find command line options listed there.
Thanks for the info though.
--le
----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Long
To: program-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 6:09 AM
Subject: [program-l] Re: Benny Hill anyone?
wmplayer /play /close "filename"
Mark
> From: lauraeaves@xxxxxxxxx
> To: program-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [program-l] Benny Hill anyone?
> Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 05:44:25 -0500
>
> Hi all --
> I am normally a sleepy head in the morning and so set up my task scheduler
> on my computer to blast the Benny Hill theme at 5am. It's gotten so I sleep
> right through it -- helps to change such things now and then to keep you
> alert...
> Anyway, today I woke up at 4 and was typing an email when at 5am I was blown
> away by my alarm music.
> LOL
> But I have a question to go along with this --
> Does anyone know how to get windows media player to play the song once and
> then exit for use in a script? It must, but I can't find how to do it.
> TIA
> --le
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