"Kagamin" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Nick Sabalausky Wrote:
>
>> Name one case in windows where some sort of distinction between filename
>> and
>> extension actually makes a real tangible difference versus unix, that
>> doesn't merely amount to convention
>
> You can pass program path to CreateProcess without extension, .exe is
> assumed.
I really don't think that indicates that Windows doesn't consider extension
part of the filename. It just expects the filename to have an extension for
certain file types. It's basically just a shortcut for:
if(tryingToRunAProgram && !hasExt(filename))
filenameRegex = filename~"\.(exe|com|bat)";
