Re: text file saved in COM format..
- From: NoStop <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 22:38:51 GMT
q_q_anonymous@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Sure is alot simpler to start a filename with a dot to hide it rather than
NoStop wrote:
q_q_anonymous@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Byte wrote:
COM and EXE extensions are reserved executable formats and cannot
be used for TXT documents. It could put your PC in the trash bin.
Save the documents with a txt or doc extension.
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or if it's an html web page, then .html/.htm
I second what you've said,.
I can't believe that so far 2 posters in this thread have gone along
with him calling this file .com !!! **maybe** it'd make sense to call
a directory .com(many offline browsers do- which is fine, it shouldn't
be confused with a file) But don't call a web page file a .com !!
It's because COM executables aren't seen much anymore. They can only be
64KB in size or smaller and are/were created in the old days by writing
assembly language. Today Windoze executables are so much larger and
written in higher level program languages than assembly. But Windoze
still recognizes the COM extention as an executable file and hence the
OP's "problem". :-)
A more sophisticated operating system won't bother doing file
associations based on file extension names, but rather will use
permission bits to designate whether a file is executable or not. But,
Windoze XP isn't that sophisticated and carries around within it alot of
old DOS baggage.
Cheers.
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Linux is ready for the desktop! More ready than Windoze XP.
http://tinyurl.com/ldm9d
Err, which OS is sophisticated and which is primitive?
Hidden files
What about more sophisticated operating systems using attributes to
make a file 'hidden'. Whereas a primitive operating system might use
the filename itself to indicate that.
to have to go and change its attributes. That I'd call "sophisticated".
Of course it's not suprising that linux doesn't include 'hidden' as anWhy should it when its so much simpler to just "dot" it?
attribute.. You'd have to know 0-15 in binary, along with 4 column
headings rwx and h !!
Globbing / *
Reasonably sophisticated operating systems also distinguish well
between files and directories. Very easy for the command that lists
them, to list either just files, or just directories.
ls -dl */
Just hidden
files. Just hidden directories.
ls -dl .*/
<snip>
Scripting
They say, but the Bash (the standard interpreter for scripts in *nix)
is so powerful!! Well, QBASIC for DOS was more powerful. Try
writing a game in Bash.
QBASIC was a interpreted "programming language". On the Linux side you have
many that are far more powerful, such as python or perl ... and there are
many more.
Though i'm not sure if QB lives in NT anymore, so that criticism is
only half fair.
Multi-user
For somebody running his own computer, the whole multiuser attributes
thing is a hassle.. Too much information.
Maybe a bit of a hassle for the newbie, but that's what keeps the user space
separate from the kernel space AND keeps one user space separate from
another user space. A sophisticated operating system has these builtin safe
guards for security purposes. Malicious code run by one user can't impact
on the o/s (kernel space) nor on other user's data/files. The lack of this
in Windoze is what makes viruses and trojans so destructive on
that "operating system".
In NT, I can use DOS
commands without care as to other peoples's read/write attributes..
As can any malware you download and run. :-)
It's my own machine anyway!! I don't have other people using it.There's more to a multiuser o/s than just the human user. There are
other "users" associated with different things that also are protected by
file permissions. Think of a user named "apache" and you'll get my drift.
I'm sure that the more you play the more you'll come to appreciate its power
Nevertheless, I shall keep playing with the linux command line, since
I am technically inclined, and I do have some time on my hands!
and usefulness.
And linux users keep insisting that I will see the light.You will. :-) When the light bulb finally comes on, you'll see the light.
So I will dig deeper and broader.HAHA, right. Nothing like having to reinstall the OS because something has
Considering what i've described, as linux annoyances. I'd say windows
annoyances are better documented, thanks to the thousands of people
complaining on usenet! With windows, the annoyances is usually found
and solved immediately! And if that fails - then reinstall the OS. And
that works!!
gone bad. Sure makes keeping ones configurations, data and installed apps
fun to redo and redo and redo.
I wont' try the linux GUIs (I mean 'window managers'). I know if I did
i'd get so mad I could write a book critiquing them!
I was a KDE user for a long time and just didn't appreciate Gnome until I
started using it with Ubuntu. I must say, I'm impressed! As for eye-candy
it's pretty hard to beat E17. That's truly impressive.
Have fun!
Cheers.
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Linux is ready for the desktop! More ready than Windoze XP.
http://tinyurl.com/ldm9d
You just can't play games on Linux!
http://tinyurl.com/kgszl
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