On 08/11/2011 09:18 AM, Vincent Povirk wrote: > I'm not sure DOSBox is able to competently open some random executable > file. One would have to make a config file that sets up a drive > mapping, runs the file, and quits. If Wine can do these things (and > maybe also properly handle cases where the COM executable expects to > be run on a windows machine or, say, a dos machine with win3.1 > installed), it seems like a fine choice to me. > > There's a non-zero chance that wine start /unix will actually start > cmd and make a terminal for BAT files. It makes one for console > executables. If it doesn't, there's a possibility that start.exe will > do that on Windows, in which case that is a Wine bug that we should > fix. You should test that before making a new thing. > > There was some talk on #mono (or #monodev) to the effect that the > arbitration mechanism for different kinds of files is called mime > types, and a DOS exe, x86/x64 PE exe, and CLR exe are all different > and should have different mime types. >
To extend this, the relevant project is Freedesktop.org's shared-mime-info and if it can't yet tell them apart that's simply a bug. Is there a super-easy way for shared-mime-info to tell these guys apart? Thanks, Scott Ritchie