[Info-vax] Alpha Community licenes.

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 9/14/2022 6:46 PM, gah4 wrote:
> On Wednesday, September 14, 2022 at 6:16:14 AM UTC-7, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
>> 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.

Windows inherited it from DOS. And DOS supposedly inherited it from CP/M.

> 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.

I would have thougth that EXE/COM and BAT/CMD was treated
differently.

Arne