VMS Used .EXE for the extension of an executable. The .COM extension was used for Digital Command Language (DCL) files -- the equivalent of .BAT on DOS.
Walt Crosby Terabase Corporation -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marcus Sent: Monday, February 16, 2004 10:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Mono-list] evangelizing mono Also, I know that this is getting a bit off-topic, but as I recall, even old-fashioned OS's like VMS used special extensions for executables. (Did VMS used .COM or something else?) On Monday 16 February 2004 4:25 pm, Gustavo Ramos wrote: > If someone gets irritated with the ".exe" extension, just crop it and > run "mono myprogram". I don't think this is a technical issue, just an > anti-ms-ism. Well, but there's a good reason to leave the .exe > extension > there: That executable is multiplatform, and no changes or recompilation > are needed to run it on windows. For ebay apps, surely the majority of > the client deployment will be for windows clients. Anyways, if you > develop it with C/C++/Pascal/Whatever, you'll have to deal with .exe's, > unless you use javascript or any other scripting language. > _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
