Re: Capabilities

Robert Schiele (rschiele@uni-mannheim.de)
Tue, 25 May 1999 10:26:52 +0200

"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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