can't pass command-line arguments

Sybren Stuvel sybrenUSE at YOURthirdtower.com.imagination
Mon Apr 10 03:59:25 EDT 2006


Lawrence D'Oliveiro enlightened us with:
> The MS-DOS foundation on which Windows is built only supports a
> small number of extensions for "executable" files (.COM, .EXE and
> .BAT), with no provision for any extensions to these.

Common misconception: screensavers are simply executable files with a
.scr extension. That's why they are often used to carry viruses.

Sybren
-- 
The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a
capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the
safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? 
                                             Frank Zappa



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