Re: how to launch downloaded files?

2002-12-16 Thread Arno Seitzinger
Arno Seitzinger wrote: [stuff about chmod] > Have a look at 'man chmod' > You can use it like 'chmod o+x yourfile' which will change permission to > executeable for the owner of the file. For the owner, it has to be u+x, of course... Arno - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsub

Re: how to launch downloaded files?

2002-12-16 Thread Arno Seitzinger
R. Bal wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm a day old Linux user, and am loving the system performance. > Everthing is great, except that I can't seem to get the files I download > off the net to "execute". I know where the files are being saved. How > do I "run" them? I have a Netscape installer, but can

Re: how to launch downloaded files?

2002-12-16 Thread Arno Seitzinger
R. Bal wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm a day old Linux user, and am loving the system performance. > Everthing is great, except that I can't seem to get the files I download > off the net to "execute". I know where the files are being saved. How > do I "run" them? I have a Netscape installer, but can

Re: how to launch downloaded files?

2002-12-14 Thread dashielljt
You can't get anything you download to launch under linux without some processing first. This isn't windows and those who put Linux together care lots more about your security than the people out of redmond washington ever did. If you downloaded files with an extension of .exe, you'd have to move

Re: how to launch downloaded files?

2002-12-14 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 09:36 PM 12/14/02 -0500, R. Bal wrote: Hi All, I'm a day old Linux user, and am loving the system performance. Everthing is great, except that I can't seem to get the files I download off the net to "execute". I know where the files are being saved. How do I "run" them? I have a Netscape

how to launch downloaded files?

2002-12-14 Thread R. Bal
Hi All, I'm a day old Linux user, and am loving the system performance. Everthing is great, except that I can't seem to get the files I download off the net to "execute". I know where the files are being saved. How do I "run" them? I have a Netscape installer, but can't seem to get it worki