On Thursday 04 September 2003 07:20 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Bryan Phinney said:

> Well this where (and I don't have an available windows box in front of
> me...) I'm getting my confusion.  I've renamed files in windows and watched
> windows get confused by them.  Rename an exe file to txt and it will try to
> open in notepad - since notepad doesn't have the ability to execute files,
> it will display gibberish (or most likely it will say that it's to big for
> notepad and it will suggest wordpad instead).  If you rename it to jpg,
> whatever your registered jpeg viewer is will try to open it, then it will
> give you an error.  I understand that a bash script will try to execute
> anything with the exec bit set - but that's linux not windows.

You can make a binary executable not execute by changing the extension to a 
non-executable.  However, rename the .exe file to .pif and it will still 
execute.

-- 
Bryan Phinney
Software Test Engineer


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