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Re: open IE from command line


Greetings, Nellis, Kenneth!

> Mystery solved (to my satisfaction). After writing, I realized that the
> script wasn't working consistently, sometimes causing IE to misbehave as 
> I originally posted. A bit of digging showed that it was working if 
> invoked from a bash session initiated by "chere", but not otherwise. 
> Comparing environment variables between the two, I notice my regular 
> session doesn't include several variables that chere does. Prime suspects:
>  * CommonProgramFiles(x86)
>  * CommonProgramW6432
>  * PUBLIC
>  * ProgramData
>  * ProgramFiles(x86)
>  * ProgramW6432
> Experimentation will no doubt find the culprit, and will put me back
> in business.

> Thanx for all the help!

%ProgramData% and %PUBLIC% is a likely culprit.


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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Thursday, December 22, 2016 18:45:27

Sorry for my terrible english...


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