Bug#324658: #324658: please support binfmt-support

Bas Zoetekouw bas at debian.org
Wed Oct 12 21:15:20 UTC 2005


Hi Barry!

You wrote:

> This does sound like a good idea; we will investigate it further.  In
> the meantime, could you provide some scenarios that would flesh out
> how you would typically utilize binfmt-support in your own usage, to
> make sure we understand your request more fully?

Well, I would like to be able to make a jar file executable and be able
to run it by just entering the name of the file, rather than "java -jar
/usr/local/bin/a_nice_app.jar".  Presumably, that can be done through
binfmt-misc (although, I've never actually used that before).

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