[Info-vax] Alpha Community licenes.

gah4 gah4 at u.washington.edu
Wed Sep 14 18:46:37 EDT 2022


On Wednesday, September 14, 2022 at 6:16:14 AM UTC-7, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:

(snip)

> They could name the file xxx_COM.TXT instead of xxx.COM so 
> that Windows doesn't think it is an executable COM file...

Yes, why did Windows use the COM extension, for something else,
when VMS already had a use for it.

As well as I know it, Windows executes file appropriately,
independent of extension, if they have one of COM, EXE, BAT, CMD,
and probably others that I forgot.

That is, it doesn't use the extension to decide how to run it.



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