| From time to time, you will run across an application that you are not able to publish because you need to make changes to the applications shortcut, and or you want to publish a Microsoft Management Console and are unable. Unfortunately, MetaFrame XP is unable to publish a shortcut at this time but the workaround for this shortcoming is to create a batch file to launch the shortcut with the START command and then publish the batch file.
To publish a shortcut, follow these steps: 1. Create the shortcut and modify its properties as necessary. 2. Create a batch file with the following line:
start d:\app\shortcut.lnk
where shortcut.lnk is the shortcut file you created in Step 1. 3. Publish this batch file as discribed in How to Publish an Application shown above. The following are the arguments of the DOS Start command. | START ["title"] [/Dpath] [/I] [/MIN] [/MAX] [/SEPARATE | /SHARED] [/LOW | /NORMAL | /HIGH | /REALTIME | /ABOVENORMAL | /BELOWNORMAL] [/WAIT] [/B] [command/program][parameters] | | | | | | | | Path | Starting directory | | B | Start application without creating a new window. The application has ^C handling ignored. Unless the application enables ^C processing, ^Break is the only way to interrupt the application | | I | The new environment will be the original environment passed to the cmd.exe and not the current environment. | | MIN | Start window minimized | | MAX | Start window maximized | | SEPARATE | Start 16-bit Windows program in separate memory space | | SHARED | Start 16-bit Windows program in shared memory space | | LOW | Start application in the IDLE priority class | | NORMAL | Start application in the NORMAL priority class | | HIGH | Start application in the HIGH priority class | | REALTIME | Start application in the REALTIME priority class | | ABOVENORMAL | Start application in the ABOVENORMAL priority class | | BELOWNORMAL | Start application in the BELOWNORMAL priority class | | WAIT | Start application and wait for it to terminate command/program | | parameters | These are the parameters passed to the command/program | | | |
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