From:	iam AT not DOT you (Ken Power)
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Subject:	Re: Is DOS dead?
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Wed, 05 Apr 2000 16:58:16 GMT, in comp.os.msdos.djgpp, Damian Yerrick
<Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p> managed to squeak:

>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.

Perhaps I am wrong, but with the newer linux kernels (2.2.x) one has
the ability to execute MISC binaries. From what I have read it appears
one can associate a file/executable with the proper loader (java class
files with a jvm, etc). No, I have never done it myself, nor have I
thoroughly searched to see how this is done, but I know it does not
depend on X or a window manager (though they also give similar
abilites).

KP
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Ken Power
uncle_wiggly at bigfoot dot com
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