associating setuptex.bat with cmd shortcut

Hi everyone, at the end of the context essentials installation on Windows, it says
When you want to use context, you need to initialize the tree with:
C:\context\tex\setuptex.bat C:\context\tex
You can associate this command with a shortcut to the cmd prompt.
What does that mean, and how do I do that (associating the command with a shortcut to cmd)? Sorry, haven't had to do anything serious on Windows for years... Thanks, Michael

On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 19:52, Michael Goerz
Hi everyone,
at the end of the context essentials installation on Windows, it says
When you want to use context, you need to initialize the tree with:
C:\context\tex\setuptex.bat C:\context\tex
You can associate this command with a shortcut to the cmd prompt.
What does that mean, and how do I do that (associating the command with a shortcut to cmd)?
Sorry, haven't had to do anything serious on Windows for years...
I have a shortcut of cmd.exe on my desktop (WinXP) and I add after cmd.exe like following : C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /K C:\context\tex\setuptex.bat So when I run this shortcut I have already ConTeXt env. HTH,

On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Vnpenguin
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 19:52, Michael Goerz
wrote: at the end of the context essentials installation on Windows, it says
When you want to use context, you need to initialize the tree with: C:\context\tex\setuptex.bat C:\context\tex You can associate this command with a shortcut to the cmd prompt. What does that mean, and how do I do that (associating the command with a shortcut to cmd)? I have a shortcut of cmd.exe on my desktop (WinXP) and I add after cmd.exe like following :
C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /K C:\context\tex\setuptex.bat Ah, it's the /K switch that I wasn't aware of.
Thanks so much! Michael
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