[X-Unix] exe files

[Eric F Crist]

On May 17, 2005, at 2:15 AM, David Ledger wrote:

>> 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


As I mentioned earlier, the correct MacOS X way to do this is to use 
the .command extension.

Geez, if some people would read.... ;)
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