Re: Running Applications
Peter Flynn (pflynn@curia.ucc.ie)
11 Oct 1996 16:29:24 +0100
Date: 11 Oct 1996 16:29:24 +0100
From: Peter Flynn <pflynn@curia.ucc.ie>
Subject: Re: Running Applications
In-reply-to: <9610111105.AA05127@s700.di.uminho.pt> (francis@di.uminho.pt)
To: francis@di.uminho.pt
Cc: www-html@w3.org
Message-id: <199610111529.QAA07344@curia.ucc.ie>
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?
I don't think you can. It's an executable, it has to reside on disk.
How do you download something _without_ saving it to disk?
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.
I know you can specify for example that ZIP files always spawn
pkunzip.exe or winzip.exe and they will run and unzip the file,
but internally, I think they always save the file to temporary disk
first. How about equating the filetype with c:\command.com?
///Peter