Arkady V.Belousov escribio':
Most people doesn't know that this difference even exists, and get puzzled when they open binary data files with TYPE.ASM> (as a side note, this is unix-ish notation that I never liked much, ASM> because in my understanding this folder is to be used in Unix/Linux for ASM> executables in machine-binary language, whereas there might be BINary ASM> DATA files, that are binary but not executable, but that are not normally ASM> put there, or am I wrong?).
Data usually not separated as "binary" or "not binary" (ie. textual),
This is my point, data is not separated (where perhaps it should). COUNTRY.SYS and KEYBOARD.SYS are (mostly, I seem to recall that Microsoft's KEYBOARD.SYS may contain even some embedded code) data, I'm sure that someone has tried out there to do
DEVICE=COUNTRY.SYS
in CONFIG.SYS :)
whereas BIN is not worsest name. :) How else? EXE?I can't think of a good name, except maybe PRG or something that has to do with PROGRAMS. Not universal but correct (unlike Microsoft Word DOC files, universal but formaly incorrect and confusing).
Aitor
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