[Bug: 21.4.20] Network Drives

[Vin Shelton]

On 4/29/07, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:
> Steve Higham writes:
>
>  > My machine contains several perl scripts (*.pl) which are certainly
>  > executable. Can the "executable extension list" be modified as a standard
>  > lisp variable?
>
> No, that's precisely why I consider it bogus, even though I haven't
> used Windows in years.  The list is implicit in a series of if ... else
> if ... clauses in the function.
>
> On the other hand, since I haven't been using Windows, I'm unsure
> whether there's a way to register an extension as executable, and how
> XEmacs could determine that at runtime.  So I need somebody who knows
> about that kind of thing to look at it.

I looked at the function; you're right - it's totally bogus.  There is
a registry key which defines file associations and we could
potentially use that.  I'll investigate a bit further.

  - Vin

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