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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>>From:</B> madewokherd@gmail.com on behalf of Vincent Povirk<BR></FONT><FONT size=2>>On 8/9/07, Misha Koshelev <mk144210@bcm.edu> wrote:<BR>><snip><BR>>> still be able to start both). Using this approach would also solve any<BR>>> problems with wine's start not necessarily having the appropriate<BR>>> command line parameter support. I am starting to like/favor the<BR>>> install-time association approach.<BR>><BR>>How would it solve that?<BR>><BR>>If you mean we should attempt to start the program directly using the<BR>>command-line from Linux instead of ShellExecute, I think this is a<BR>>very bad idea. We would suddenly have to worry about setting the<BR>>working directory correctly, replacing %1 and anything similar, not to<BR>>mention handling those actions that use some other method. We'd pretty<BR>>much have to rewrite ShellExecute on the Linux side.<BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2>That is a good point, especially when you consider things like DDE. If I remember my Windows</FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2>registry correctly though this would mean only one Win32 application/MIME-type (at least per</FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2>wine prefix I guess). I guess that means we would have to go through start or some kind of start-like</FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2>approach. So any info about the non-open verbs being supported on the Linux side of things?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2>Misha</DIV></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>