Automatic file associations - Re: Unix handles file extensions "very poorly"? - Re: Mac/Mac Programming/Cocoa/HyperTalk Books free - Melbourne

17 Dec 2011

...
   I don't
know of any OS where execve() pays any attention to what's
 in the pathname beyond handing it to the filesystem layer to locate
 the relevant file. 
 In MS-DOS, 
Seredipity!

I actually meant Unixy OS, and I don't really consider MS-DOS very
Unixy - AIUI it doesn't have multiple processes, for one thing.

But as a result of that mistake, I now know more than I did before
about MS-DOS.  (I'm tempted to say, more than I ever wanted to know,
but such knowledge is never wasted....)  Thank you.

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Automatic file associations - Re: Unix handles file extensions "very poorly"? - Re: Mac/Mac Programming/Cocoa/HyperTalk Books free - Melbourne