From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2002-07-14T04:49:11+09:00
Subject: Re: .rb files in WIndows

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ariff Abdullah" <skywizard@time.net.my>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 13, 2002 1:28 PM
Subject: Re: .rb files in WIndows


> On Sunday 14 July 2002 02:00, you wrote:
> 
> > I think you're right; I don't know about XP, though.
> > See the 'assoc' and 'ftype' commands; on my Win2k box:
> >
> > C:\>assoc .rb
> > ..rb=rbFile
> >
> > C:\>ftype rbfile
> > rbfile="C:\ruby\bin\ruby.exe" "%1" %*
> 
> Sure, Xp inherited from NT and 'NT cmd.exe' tightly integrated
> with native win32 syscall, while win9x DOS 'command.com' is
> just a plain dos, it know nothing about win32 filetype assoc.

Apparently correct. I can't do this on Win98 as I 
have neither of these executables.

One of these days I'll have to crossgrade to XP, 
or just give up and stick to Linux.

Thanks for the replies, Ariff, Bernard, Michael,
and Martin.

Cheers,
Hal Fulton