On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 12:49:54AM +0200, benoit wrote: > hi, > > > i've received thousands of swens, each with a '.exe' file. > > i've just received a '.bat' swen, i'm surprised. am i the only one to > get one ? > > > $ md5sum *bat > b09e26c292759d654633d3c8ed00d18d gawyvom.bat (same as usually) > $ file gawyvom.bat > gawyvom.bat: MS-DOS executable (EXE), OS/2 or MS Windows
No, I've had 73 out of 3851 claiming to be a .bat. As your file output shows, it's really a .exe. Contrary to popular belief M$ executables can have any extension, the .exe is not mandatory. The loader figures it out by looking for the .exe signature in the file. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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