From: Nate Eldredge <neldredge AT hmc DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: Is DOS dead?
Date: 05 Apr 2000 12:28:41 -0700
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"Campbell, Rolf [SKY:1U32:EXCH]" <moscoop AT americasm01 DOT nt DOT com> writes:

> 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?

Hm, or have foo.rpm contain

#! /usr/bin/rpm -U
...rest of rpm file

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Nate Eldredge
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