Re: JAR file association on Windows 7 broken

On Sat, 30 Jun 2012 21:53:50 -0700, Lew <noone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote,
quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :


That doesn't sound like the right approach.

You normally don't want to put anything into Java's own lib/ folders.

putting the jar in the ext dir would effectively put the jar on the
classpath, I it would not do anything to make

xxx.jar

on the command line execute the jar. Windows still would not know
jars are executable or what executable can process them.

See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/jar.html#ASSOCIATION

For how to set up the association.

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Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
http://mindprod.com
Why do so many operating systems refuse to define a standard
temporary file marking mechanism? It could be a reserved lead character
such as the ~ or a reserved extension such as .tmp.
It could be a file attribute bit. Because they refuse, there is no
fool-proof way to scan a disk for orphaned temporary files and delete them.
Further, you can't tell where the orhaned files ame from.
This means the hard disks gradually fill up with garbage.

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