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[Q] Opening Exploder, with side bar showing directory full path   [Q]

By: Steve Rawling     Sydney  
Date: Sep 29,2021 at 08:01
In Response to: [Q] Opening Exploder, with side bar showing directory full path (Steve Rawling)

> > I've had this shortcut in my X
> > history for decades:
> >
> > E start explorer.exe /n,/e,/select,"%1"
> >
> > I'm still wondering who was the genius that came up
> > with both '/' and ',' as separators in a command line
> > utility...
> >
>
>
>
> Kims original eXecute START . is simplest way to open explorer from
> either the ZTW file or dir window and the side window directory listed
> with the root directory highlighted
>
> Slobodan's way of eXecute start explorer.exe /n,/e,/select,"%1"
> (with or without the "") does the same I believe. or am I missing
> something
>
> Charles Schubach in June 2002 seems to be the first to suggest
> explorer.exe /n,/e,/select, %2:%3 as a F9 entry which seems to me to do
> the same as above methods. (not sure of all the explorer command line
> switches.
> see http://www.ztw3.com/forum/forum_entry.php?id=38698
> It would be nice to find the full list of explorer command line
> switches. Where is it? anybody know?
>
> But what I always wanted but could never achieve is to open explorer
> from ZTW and have the explorer main window listing the files of the
> current ztw directory in the explorer main window and the whole directory
> path from the root to the current directory in the side bar with the
> highlight on the current directory. Is there a way to do that, with a
> command line string?


Oh I forgot to mention START .. which places the current directory and the contents of the parent directory in the main explorer window.. Still not what I am looking for though, :-)

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