Automatically execute a program?

[Tim]

Does anyone out there know a way that if I put an executable on floppy disk
that the executable (say there is only one) is run as soon as it is placed
in the disk drive?

Thanks,

Tim

[Andy Friedman]

it would be great if you could have "autorun" capabilities on floppies just
like cd's :-)

the problem with most floppy drives is that they don't signal the os when a
disk is entered or removed. so i don't think it's possible, not unless you
had a background service that was constantly polling the floppy drive... but
that is not a desireable solution.

andy

"Tim" <barczt@central.edu> wrote in message news:3a3e29be$1@news.devx.com...
>
> Does anyone out there know a way that if I put an executable on floppy
disk
> that the executable (say there is only one) is run as soon as it is placed
> in the disk drive?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tim

[Danny Kalev]

As Andy says, it's nearly impossible to do that, unless you have a
system service (or daemon, Unix speaking) that polls the floppy drive
frequently and detects an inserted diskette. There are several problems
with this concept: security (what if the diskette is infected with a
virus and you inserted it to delete a contaminated program?), what if
the diskette contains several programs?

Danny

Tim wrote:
>
> Does anyone out there know a way that if I put an executable on floppy disk
> that the executable (say there is only one) is run as soon as it is placed
> in the disk drive?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tim