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From: | Vic <tudor AT cam DOT org> |
Newsgroups: | comp.os.msdos.djgpp |
Subject: | Re: .COM's with DJGPP? |
Date: | Fri, 17 Apr 1998 23:20:42 +0300 |
Organization: | Communications Accessibles Montreal, Quebec Canada |
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Message-ID: | <3537B99A.6460@cam.org> |
References: | <35379F0B DOT 6F79F86F AT indigo DOT ie> <3537F565 DOT 3C1CCCA2 AT a DOT crl DOT com> <3538D4C4 DOT 6919240 AT lr DOT net> <3538F4EF DOT A11E233D AT a DOT crl DOT com> <01bd6a50$8a708600$3048a5c6 AT technoid> <35395468 DOT F8F390B2 AT a DOT crl DOT com> <3537A575 DOT 1485 AT cam DOT org> <35395E48 DOT AAC5849E AT a DOT crl DOT com> |
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Weiqi Gao wrote: > Oh-oh, intellegent life detected! :) he he > > renaming the exe to com will NOT crash the computer. > > Why don't you try for yourselves? It's THAT easy. It works on my machine > > anyways. > > But why? I think the win95 loader scans the file, it no longet looks at the extention. I think it looks for the EXE header, and if it doesn't find it, it assumes it's a com. Just relying on the extention would be stupid (but we ARE talking about microsoft)
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