Nick Sabalausky Wrote: > "Kagamin" <[email protected]> wrote in message > news:[email protected]... > > 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)";
This indicates that windows is quite smart regarding extensions.
