Re: text file saved in COM format..


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.

Of course it's not suprising that linux doesn't include 'hidden' as an
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. Just hidden
files. Just hidden directories. And even offer a consistent expansion
of *(globbing).

Consistent expansion of * (globbing) (in linux, it's such a mess
amongst shells, whether it'll expand those beginning with . that it's
best only to use * interactively, i.e. not in a script.

There's also the issue with . and .. and recursive commands. (I delete
this directory, which includes . and .. so it'll delete .. how?
well, it includes . and .. oh so i'll be deleting the parent then over
and over again until err, until all disks are wiped? We don't want
any of that to happen, so better that the command be inconsistent to
prevent it! Be recursive, but not with ..) Well, as long as the user
knows what's going on.

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.
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. In NT, I can use DOS
commands without care as to other peoples's read/write attributes..
It's my own machine anyway!! I don't have other people using it.



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 linux users keep insisting that I will see the light.

So I will dig deeper and broader.

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!!

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!

.

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