Bryan Phinney said: > 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.
Ok, this makes sense. Thanks! Mike
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