mikshaw
Group: Members
Posts: 4856
Joined: July 2004 |
 |
Posted: Sep. 07 2006,21:20 |
 |
I think he's talking about configuring filetype associations within Tux Commander.
Executables aren't really a filetype in Linux as they are in Windows. Any file could theoretically be executable, and generally file managers go by either the file header, the filename extension, or a combination of both. So it may be a complex task to associate all executable files.
I don't know anything about Tux Commander, but it would be much simpler if it could read file permissions and determine what to do then.
There's also the complication of shell scripts. Some will run fine, as long as they are not interactive. Others may need to spawn a shell in which to run...otherwise your application will be running with no way to interact with it. Midnight Commander deals with this fine because it's already running in a terminal. I'm not sure if Tux Commander has this ability.
I know this doesn't answer your question, but i thought i'd throw some stuff out there.
--------------
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/index.html
|
.
DSL Market ,
Great VPS hosting provided by Tektonic
