Dick Watson wrote ::
> I'm trying to add an external command line utility (fsum.exe from slavasoft)
> to a WinXP system but do not want to just dump the executable in
> %SystemRoot%\system32 for reasons of traceability as to how all of the
> add-in stuff like this got on the system. But I also don't want to add
> %ProgramFile%\misc\fsum (wherein I document the source of the code, etc) to
> the system environment path in order to avoid the path getting any more out
> of hand than it already is and to avoid adding lots of directories (where
> anything will be run from) to the path when I just want to be able to find
> one specific executable.


Create a .bat or .cmd file in one of the folders listed in paths and use
the bat file to launch your exe with params.

Bat Ex:
start /d"C:\Program Files\misc\fsum" fsum.exe "%1" "%2" "%3" "%4" "%5"



Good Luck, Ayush.
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