On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 10:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Well, I was under the impression that windows decided how to handle a > > program based on the extension; i.e., if you call a .jpg a .blah, even > > though it has photoshop installed on the machine, it will choke and say it > > doesn't know how to open a .blah file. > > Yes... Winders will use the extension to determine what app gets to open > the file. It always amuses me how different applications will compete to > become the default app and the warnings that tell you that bad things will > happen if you change from the (usually) MS defaults. > > > Maybe if you renamed the .jpg to .tif though, you could get the photoshop > > program to open and then it would take over and decide to display the > > image correctly? > > Depends somewhat on the application. Some of them will inspect the header > of the file to make sure that it's correct. Others will blindly attempt to > load the data file. > > > In my short research on google, I read that a pif was similar to a bat > > file; can a bat file contain compiled code also? > > True PIF files contain information on how to run a program. It was mostly > used in early versions of Windows for running DOS mode programs.
intresting point here. your statement is correct but it actually contains a warning (the binary) that it can't run in DOS mode *grin* > > A bat file can contain compiled code, but not in the usual sense. You can > encode a binary file into a .bat and then use the bat to write a binary > and then execute it. This is actually pretty common on Linux, but is > possible on Windows. > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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