Lawrence D'Oliveiro enlightened us with:
> The MS-DOS foundation on which Windows is built only supports a
> small number of extensions for "executable" files (.COM, .EXE and
> .BAT), with no provision for any extensions to these.
Common misconception: screensavers are simply executable files with a
.scr extension. That's why they are often used to carry viruses.
Sybren
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The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a
capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the
safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?
Frank Zappa
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