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Old 09-19-2009, 11:29 AM   #32
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Originally Posted by ascherjim View Post
Thanks Dave for jumping in. Thankfully you can always be counted on to help all of us out. Even though my WinSCP has been working fine (with panels and everything) for months now, I still never figured out how to "install" the linux.inf file (or what I really needed to do), but I apparently did so without realizing it (or nothing would have worked -- right?). Regards, Jim
Yes, that seems right. An *.INF file is just a text file, and I *think now* that the default is to open it with your default text editor if you just left click on it. If you right click on it you should also see an INSTALL option. An INF file is basically just a script that installs "something" and makes the necessary registry changes so that other programs can use whatever was installed. In the case of linux.inf it "installs" files that are already part of WinXP and then makes the necessary registry entries.
I am sorry that I did not describe it better earlier, as I was thinking that the default action was to run the script when it was left clicked on. It seems that is not the case.
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