[pmmail-list] Filter question

[L.Willms]

On Wed, 16 Oct 2002 11:42:45 -0700, Tim Roberts wrote:

> That's not so on NT/2K/XP.  Certain extensions can be "associated" with a 
> processor, so that programmatically launching xxx.rex or xxx.py or xxx.pl 
> automatically launches the Rexx or Python or Perl interpreter as required.  
> In fact, you can set the PATHEXT environment variable from a shell prompt to 
> get it to search for .PY or .REX extensions for command in exactly the same 
> way it now searches for .COM, .EXE, .BAT and .CMD.

  The calling program can use the Windows API "ShellExecuteA" which will look 
into the Registry to figure out which program is configured there for "Open" 
or whatever action. 

Yours, 
Lüko Willms
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