Re: Running Applications

On Fri, 11 Oct 1996, Francisco Pinto wrote:

> How can I execute an application 
> 
> 	Binary Executable (application/octet-stream) (exe,bin)
> 
> immediately after download it from the Internet through a Browser, without 
> saving it to disk?

Without saving it to disk is 'hard' indeed! In fact, I'd say it'd at 
least get saved to disk as a cache measure.

> The goal is to install automatically a software package, running first 
> the setup application. I know that this could be dangerous in security 
> terms. But this case, is a particular case, where I know what software 
> pack I will run.

This alos depends what browser you are running. I know there is a plug-in 
for netscape that is specifically for installing software, but I have NO 
IDEA of how much it costs to use/liciense on either end, or whatever!

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Received on Friday, 11 October 1996 09:44:40 UTC