[aferen@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Andrew C. Feren)]

I noticed a surprising (to me) behavior today.  If I type "ethereal"
into the address field in Internet Expoder this causes the ethereal
application to launch.

My first thought was that IE was looking in the path for executables,
but typing "notepad" or "wordpad", for example, results in an internet
keyword search rather than running the executables.

Can anyone explain what ethereal does to cause this behavior?  Was
this behavior intended?  Seems odd to me, but I'm not typically a
Windoze user so I might be missing something here.

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-Andrew Feren
 Cetacean Networks, Inc.
 Portsmouth, NH