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> Just because I have a distrust of Windows's command interpreter, what
> happens when you type:
>
> ftype python.file
>
> ? Does it echo back what you thought it had, or has %* been eaten? If
> the %* is missing, that would explain the loss of arguments.

Already tought of that:


C:\Temp>ftype python.file
python.file="C:\Windows\py.exe" "%1" %*

C:\Temp>

Something else is going on.