From:	Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
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Subject:	Re: Is DOS dead?
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Date:	Wed, 05 Apr 2000 16:58:16 GMT
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On Wed, 05 Apr 2000 11:09:26 -0400, "Campbell, Rolf [SKY:1U32:EXCH]"
<moscoop AT americasm01 DOT nt DOT com> wrote:

>Damian Yerrick wrote:
>
>> >How hard would it be to make a executable with an embedded RPM image
>> >so that when it was executed, it installed itself?  I doubt it would
>> >be very hard, and I think that's the way rpm's should be done (it
>> >looks much more attractive to Windows users)
>> Or just automatically associate RPM archives with `rpm -U'.
>
>What type of 'associatation' do you mean?  Wouldn't this have to be a
>file-manager specific task?

Yes, and it would come as the default in decent file managers.

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