[X-Unix] exe files

David Ledger dledger at ivdcs.demon.co.uk
Tue May 17 00:15:54 PDT 2005


>Sometime in May Richard Nagle assaulted the keyboard and produced:
>
>| Hi John,
>|
>| Well for some reason,
>| after doing this, still when I double click on this,
>| all I get is which application would you like to open this with?
>
>Click "Choose Application"
>Under the enable pulldown menu select "All Applications"
>Then select "Terminal.app" in /Applications/Utilities/
>Then check "Always open with" and hit open.

Fine as long as the filename has an extension not used for anything 
else. (Don't use .exe - that's reserved for viruses :-) ).  A null 
extension may work, but then all no-extension files would open in 
terminal, so I won't try it.

David


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David Ledger - Freelance Unix Sysadmin in the UK.
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