[Info-vax] OT: Rob Short: Operating System Evolution

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <paul.nospam-91F9B0.21284204012010 at pbook.sture.ch>,
	Paul Sture <paul.nospam at sture.ch> writes:
> In article <4b40c08e$0$280$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>,
>  Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> 
>> The *nix and Win way is that extension implies content while VMS and
>> to some extent DOS is that application implies content and extension
>> usually can be omitted because the application will apply the default.
>> 
>> I very much prefer the VMS way for command line, but it is
>> not easily applied to GUI.
> 
> One problem I find with OS X (and I assume other *nix variants) is 
> determining which files are executables or scripts. 

Try the "file" command.

>                                                     The .EXE and .COM 
> convention used by VMS does makes that easy to see at a glance.

I thought we were just told that under VMS there is no significance to
file name extensions?  I know I had no problem running a file with the
extension .ZIP this morning.

bill

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