Double-clickable app proposal

Andreas Raab raab at isgnw.cs.Uni-Magdeburg.DE
Mon Feb 2 21:37:59 UTC 1998


> What if a Squeak VM file could recognize if an image file were simply
> appended to it, and do the right thing?  Then it should take no more to
> make a double-clickable app than to do a save followed by a file copy. 

Sounds good!

> OS gurus:  Can this be done simply on the Mac PPC, 68K, Windows, Unix,
> OS/2, etc? 

I just tried appending stuff to an executable on Win95 and I could start
it. It's not fully clear how to find the image in the executable and I
also assume that a number of virus scanners will complain about undeclared
data in the executable, but in general it looks as if it works.

Andreas

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