On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 07:52:41PM +0100, Herman Robak wrote: <snip> > > Does XP distinguish between the two? > > For local files, you don't get any dialog asking > you questions when you double-click its icon. This > is the same in GNOME and KDE, and it is expected.
Of course, on Linux, the file needs to be executable. In Windows, I don't believe there's any "executable / not-executable" metadata about files. (I could be wrong, but I'd be surprised to learn about it!) -bill!
