----- Original Message ----- From: "Sylvain Petreolle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tony Lambregts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Dustin Navea" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Sylvain Petreolle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Wine Developers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, December 08, 2002 5:11 AM Subject: Re: Loading Autorun.inf on CD's
> If you want act in this way, I have something for you. > This could help Paul Jones, who is searching how to "launch" *.msi > installers. interesting > The better way we can handle this is a program who tries to open every > document we give to it. A freeware utility exists in cygwin world and > is called cygstart, using the existing registry. If we give it a .doc, > it looks in HKCR and starts Worpad/Winword. > That is a definite must.. > If we tweak the registry of a .inf (winedefault.reg), we can ask it to > launch a tiny program that will open the .inf and run the program > specified. Sounds like it could work, but what about inf installer files (ie TweakUI's inf, or driver inf files) how would they be handled? > > I have not seen this work either and definitely not with an .inf. Yes > > it > > would be cool and if you want to start a bug concerning it feel free. > > I > > am not that worried about it though. The way I see it is that most of > > > > this is not realy a wine problem but rather with setting up autorun > > so > > that it is able to understand what to do with an .inf file. I suppose > > > > another way to look at it might be that wcmd could/should be able to > > handle something like "wcmd autorun.inf". > > -Dustin
