On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Jeff C. Britton <[email protected]> wrote: > I haven't seen a .com file in a long time. > I was curious about its limitations and I found the following: > "The .com is limited to 64k size for everything including data and > program".
There is no effective difference between ".com" and ".exe" in modern Windows. A file with either extension can be a full-fledged Win32 PE/COFF file. When you type "foo" in cmd.exe, it searches for "foo.com" first, followed by "foo.exe". Factor exploits this so that running "factor" from the commandline favors the console application "factor.com", whereas Start menu or desktop links can link to the windowed application "factor.exe" directly and avoid launching a commandline window alongside the UI. Both executables will run the UI listener by default; to get a commandline listener, you can start factor with "factor.com -run=listener". -Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Centralized Desktop Delivery: Dell and VMware Reference Architecture Simplifying enterprise desktop deployment and management using Dell EqualLogic storage and VMware View: A highly scalable, end-to-end client virtualization framework. Read more! http://p.sf.net/sfu/dell-eql-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Factor-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/factor-talk
