Messages in this thread | | | From | "Muzaffer Kal" <> | Subject | RE: Capabilities | Date | Tue, 25 May 1999 17:41:23 -0700 |
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I didn't reply to the original message but to keep the record straigth, you can type the full name of a file which has an association and NT does the right thing. This works on the command line too, not only with the explorer. I can type foo.avi and have it played under my NT4 SP3 machine.
-----Original Message----- From: owner-linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu [mailto:owner-linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu]On Behalf Of Joseph Malicki Sent: Monday, May 24, 1999 12:56 PM To: majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu; Kevin M. Bealer; Bill Spitzak Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu; torvalds@transmeta.com; acahalan@cs.uml.edu; kevin@bgm-139-194.stny.rr.com Subject: Re: Capabilities
On Sat, 22 May 1999, Kevin M. Bealer wrote:
> In my experience, Windows doesn't really allow you to "execute" these > files from the command line, per se. You have a file manager (explorer) > which does a look up and determines which program to run on the file. > This would be easy to do for linux, but is not a kernel issue. > Ah. But with binfmt_misc, you CAN do that in linux, and it is ALREADY in the kernel.
Joseph Malicki.
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