On 11/4/06, Peter Velan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Will windoze execute a file that ends in dot-space-space-space-exe ? > >> dosent the os see this as NOT ending in .exe > > > > I think that windows will happily exec the file, but I don't have a > > machine to test on. > > You are right - WindowsXP with shell cmd.exe: > > C:\>"xxx. exe" --- will "happily" be executed.
Except your average user is not going to extract the file from the zip file and then launch a command prompt in order to run it. If you simply double-click the file, Windows does not appear to be willing to execute it. cheers, John -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
