-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Am 07.01.2023 um 13:40 schrieb The Wanderer: > On 2023-01-07 at 07:13, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > >> All .exe files are windows, linux does not use .exe! > > While the latter statement is (largely) correct, the former is not. > Some .exe files are DOS programs, not Windows programs. > > The question being asked is how to tell which type a given EXE is, > and assuming it turns out to be a DOS program, how to run it. >
OMG, i really have some difficulty to access my own knowing, as i used to handle such problems almost one generation ago. ;-) But my first research turned up some useful hints. But mostly: i did not receive the OP's originel post (for whatever reason) and am therefore lacking a pointer to the question, that really woke up his interest. This is my list of links: > http://justsolve.archiveteam.org/wiki/Linear_Executable > https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/definition/executable-file-exe-file > > https://fileinfo.com/extension/exe > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_executable_file_formats > > http://justsolve.archiveteam.org/wiki/MS-DOS_EXE > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS_MZ_executable > https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/X86_Disassembly/Windows_Executable_Files -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEEumgd33HMGU/Wk4ZRe3aiXLdoWD0FAmO5ddQACgkQe3aiXLdo WD3YqA//STrZTqCWgcvC9ddT0zT2J5dTuRr7V60S8Nahexn1MnepuJO92h93UUIB MB0BI5RIw4WLtQOaUqWHtsIK4RB8W+40PUJkT4AQwXR2mcObvX19DLiNmpCp4gQR O57JRdthgj+E7VWnvT1ez0ZBD26+CWoBmiYo6wKdmmVRlAie8K0wAWEufNBflFQ4 ydydph1ikl2RIbbNRbojC47eg7ZrymMc8XuSGbM6BH76Q6ukhW+fw/TGbxBtA6zl HqgKIMJrlsY2dq+zOK0XJHLyagTLw5MYDvE3ZUavUeB2coXnio1cXgw/URSSWOYT CN+bQjOFhhL+16LH+iKs410jS9wNmVQ3VDZefH5DXKhAPua8EIvkmv2+8w16AEAO 32ED5Z5MEaT97RkEGrX18upyBp6jltM42xSDeUYxizeJKIF8Vzc6WRE6fi4CINfY 6upiLHt9uBACM48wSiukB3n9d0JzWe/KCDBoztbeWqCywsMYTw43x7cE7zOrKE7L N6/RXvfdiVXfH83L4ELztIfqSaT9RV8NX5EG6Un6yVe5bcAV0wNgNFpU9g9i+yuC zeifomxcGnBdnI/qWkgLP2OBRUFOgylqlnjCn5QDjPOcwbIpbDb6v2FiDNSHh25Q 8Jrj8afA3YvnT17d7s/f7TDMtEqOK4aQWqhDk0INv24upZXWud4= =v6UH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
