- From: Peter Flynn <pflynn@curia.ucc.ie>
- Date: 11 Oct 1996 16:29:24 +0100
- To: francis@di.uminho.pt
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
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
Received on Friday, 11 October 1996 11:57:33 UTC