Re: a small patch to wineshelllink

[Alexandre Julliard]

"Michael Cardenas" <michaelc(a)lindows.com> writes:
> - Added a check for file type to wineshelllink. If the file is an
>  executable, add "Type=application" to the kde entry.

You can't do it that way, there is no guarantee that 'file' will
return the same description on all machines.

-- 
Alexandre Julliard
julliard(a)winehq.com

a small patch to wineshelllink

On 15 Feb 2002, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
> "Michael Cardenas" <michaelc(a)lindows.com> writes:
> > - Added a check for file type to wineshelllink. If the file is an
> >  executable, add "Type=application" to the kde entry.
>
> You can't do it that way, there is no guarantee that 'file' will
> return the same description on all machines.

Nor for all .exe files:

file Tester.exe
Tester.exe: MS-DOS executable (EXE), OS/2 or MS Windows
file cmdl.exe
cmdl.exe: MS Windows PE 32-bit Intel 80386 console executable not relocatable


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