fdups: calling for beta testers
Serge Orlov
Serge.Orlov at gmail.com
Sat Feb 26 15:06:54 EST 2005
Peter Hansen wrote:
> Patrick Useldinger wrote:
>>> (9) Any good reason why the "executables" don't have ".py"
>>> extensions on their names?
>>
>> (9) Because I am lazy and Linux doesn't care. I suppose Windows does?
>
> Unfortunately, yes. Windows has nothing like the "x" permission
> bit, so you have to have an actual extension on the filename and
> Windows (XP anyway) will check it against the list of extensions
> in the PATHEXT environment variable to determine if it should be
> treated like an executable.
>
> Otherwise you must type "python" and the full filename.
Or use exemaker, which IMHO is the best way to handle this
problem.
Serge.
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