From: Martin Weber <Ephaeton@...>
Date: 2002-07-14T05:12:40+09:00
Subject: Re: .rb files in WIndows

On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 04:49:11AM +0900, Hal E. Fulton wrote:
> ----- 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.

I was just hit by what I would call a spark of inspiration.
Try start.exe ? that really should be there, just searched
a bit through the web before I wrote to you. Start.exe, not
run.exe *mutter*

I have found it I guess:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q126410

Quote:

You can use the START command to open files if its extension
is a registered file type in Windows. For example, if you type
"start Readme.txt", Notepad is started and the Readme.txt file
is displayed.

Hah, gotta love a memory which still serves well for things
that lie half a decade back and which you used about two times :)

Good luck Hal (HTH finally), 

-Martin