Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 May 1999 10:26:52 +0200 | From | Robert Schiele <> | Subject | Re: Capabilities |
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"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. >
That's not correct. In Windows this is neither handled by the kernel nor by the file manager. In fact it is handled by a library function. If you wanted to start a document from the command line, you should try 'start mydocument.doc'. In Windows there is a need for such a function, as the system does not provide fork().
Robert
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