Cool feature in SuSe Linux

[Tor]

My friend showed me this. Open a terminal and simply type 'notepad'. It will actually load the Windows notepad. I think you have to have a Windows partition with Windows Installed.

I'm pretty sure it uses Wine.

[v0id]

You don't have to have Windows installed. This Notepad comes with Wine, like a sample application. It can be found in /usr/bin under the name notepad.exe. There are other Windows-applications available too. You could try out regedit.

[Jordan]

I found this out by accident one day. It is pretty neat but I never used it other than the one time. It seems to me that MS would be upset that notepad.exe was being distributed with Wine though.

[Tor]

Ahh, I did not know it came with Wine. I thought it was part of openSuse. It does seem a bit odd that MS hasn't said anything, is it really the real notepad.exe though?

[TcM]

I think yes, because Wine emulates windows apps, so as thats what it's supposed to do, I think it is the real windows application.

[chown]

This works on my install too! Cool!

[rumen]

Notepad is integrated in WINE by default I use it sometimes as well.