Re: CreateFile executable file types

"Pavel A." <pavel_a@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I'm seing that CreateFile( NULL, "batch.cmd", ... ) runs batch.cmd, but
CreateFile( NULL, "batch.js", ... ) gives error 193 : not a valid win32
app. The .js extension is on my PATHEXT.

I guess you are talking about CreateProcess(), not CreateFile().

If I remember correctly, CreateProcess() has some built-in logic for a
handful of file types that are not PE. This is how, for example, 16 bit
executables work: when CreateProcess() understands that the executable is
not a win32 executable, it forwards the execution request to NTVDM.

S


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