Re: How can I check (and run) if an *.exe is a DOS or a Windows program?

Inspect the files with strings and pipe the output to less. Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) .

Re: How can I check (and run) if an *.exe is a DOS or a Windows program?

All .exe files are windows, linux does not use .exe! You can run Windows applications on Linux using: WINE, CrossOver Office or Steam Proton. I recommend CrossOver Office, I use it to play windows games on Linux. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian - The universal operating system ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://www.debia

Re: How can I check (and run) if an *.exe is a DOS or a Windows program?

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 i

Re: Debian release criteria.

On Sat, Jan 07, 2023 at 12:50:37PM +, Joe wrote: > On Sat, 7 Jan 2023 07:39:41 +0100 > wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 06, 2023 at 07:41:16PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > [...] hope that Firefox gets a bit more memory-efficient, > > > > Stefan, I *love* your dry humour :

Re: How can I check (and run) if an *.exe is a DOS or a Windows program?

-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

Re: How can I check (and run) if an *.exe is a DOS or a Windows program?

If I remember correctly, dos and windows .com and .exe programs all have control-z as their first character. The file command may also help. Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) .

Re: How can I check (and run) if an *.exe is a DOS or a Windows program?

As far as I know, you can look into the file with a hexeditor (maybe any other editor should do it, too). In the first line is written, which OS is required. However, there could be anything written, but in most cases it is set correctly. Please do not blame me, if I am wrong, but I blieve, thi

Re: How can I check (and run) if an *.exe is a DOS or a Windows program?

On Sat, 2023-01-07 at 08:47 -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > If I remember correctly, dos and windows .com and .exe programs all have > control-z as their first character. The file command may also help. If I remember correctly, COM files have no header, the first byte is the first machine code inst

Re: How can I check (and run) if an *.exe is a DOS or a Windows program?

On Sat, Jan 07, 2023 at 02:42:38PM +, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > Am 07/01/2023 um 12:13 schrieb Timothy M Butterworth: > > All .exe files are windows, linux does not use .exe! You can run Windows > > applications on Linux using: WINE, CrossOver Office or Steam Proton. I > > recommend CrossOver Off

Re: How can I check (and run) if an *.exe is a DOS or a Windows program?

On Sat, Jan 07, 2023 at 08:47:09AM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > If I remember correctly, dos and windows .com and .exe programs all have > control-z as their first character. The file command may also help. No. Control-Z (aka 0x1a) was an EOF character under DOS. Files were (sometimes...) termin

Re: Debian release criteria.

> That said, my way to cope with it: my main browsing profile > is one where I have excised javascript capabilities by "tuning" > (read: fat-fingering) about:config. Some pages won't work, but > for those I get to think twice whether I'm interested or not. > Most of the time I am not. I use uMatri

Re: [OT] coo, was Re: Debian release criteria.

On 2023-01-07, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > To an American audience, the meaning is quite different. We only use > "coo" to describe the noise made by a dove, or as an (urban) slang > term which is a shortened form of "cool". > I haven't been following, but coo to me is the sound a pigeon makes, or

Re: Debian release criteria.

On Sat, Jan 07, 2023 at 12:45:52PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > That said, my way to cope with it: my main browsing profile > > is one where I have excised javascript capabilities by "tuning" > > (read: fat-fingering) about:config. Some pages won't work, but > > for those I get to think twice w

Debian security team support for Bullseye?

How much longer will Debian security team support Bullseye? The LTS Wiki page is kind of confusing as to when I have to upgrade to Bookworm. Thanks, John -- John Conover, cono...@panix.com, http://www.johncon.com/

Re: Debian security team support for Bullseye?

On 2023-01-07 11:22 -0800, John Conover wrote: > How much longer will Debian security team support Bullseye? For one year after the release of Bookworm, whenever that may be. > The LTS Wiki page is kind of confusing as to when I have to upgrade to > Bookworm. It seems to project that the LTS te

Re: How can I check (and run) if an *.exe is a DOS or a Windowsprogram?

On 1/7/23 12:25, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sat, Jan 07, 2023 at 08:47:09AM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: If I remember correctly, dos and windows .com and .exe programs all have control-z as their first character. The file command may also help. No. Control-Z (aka 0x1a) was an EOF character un

Re: How can I check (and run) if an *.exe is a DOS or a Windows program?

On 1/7/23 13:33, Ottavio Caruso wrote: I have a few DOS/Windows abandonware that I'd like to check but I only want the DOS ones, because Wine on my installation is a total pain. For example: $ file test2/sm416.exe test2/sm416.exe: Zip archive data, made by v2.0, extract using at least v2.0, l

why some memory are missing

i have hp dx5150, running buster bios shows 4G memory, but in buster, top shows 3282.8M i have independent graphics card, memory isn't shared i think i have tried bullseye for amd, it doesn't show 4G either memtest86+ shows about 3G memory hp guide says "The memory available may be limited by

Re: why some memory are missing

On Sun, Jan 08, 2023 at 06:49:01AM +0800, lsg wrote: > i have hp dx5150, running buster > > bios shows 4G memory, but in buster, top shows 3282.8M Google gives me which says HP's DX5150 comes in a variety of configurations. The base model ships with a

Re: why some memory are missing

Thank Greg Wooledge! i've tried bullseye for amd64, it doesn't help memtest86+ claims it can test all memory

Re: why some memory are missing

I imagine it’s a bios limitation and it cannot address the full 4GB even though it’s a 64bit CPU. This was common with the Intel 925/945 chipsets even through they supported Intel 64bit CPUs of the time. On Sat, Jan 7, 2023 at 6:08 PM lsg wrote: > Thank Greg Wooledge! > > i've tried bullseye for

Re: How can I check (and run) if an *.exe is a DOS or a Windows program?

If I remember correctly, all Windows EXE have an string saying: This program cannot be run in DOS mode. It is displayed when loaded under MS-DOS, so it should be easy to identify an EXE for DOS from an EXE for Windows. To run it, dosbox should work. Greetings

Re: why some memory are missing

On 1/8/23 07:30, Jeremy Hendricks wrote: I imagine it’s a bios limitation and it cannot address the full 4GB even though it’s a 64bit CPU. This was common with the Intel 925/945 chipsets even through they supported Intel 64bit CPUs of the time. Thank Jeremy Hendricks! it seems to me that

Re: why some memory are missing

No problem. It was very common “back in my day” On Sat, Jan 7, 2023 at 7:10 PM lsg wrote: > > On 1/8/23 07:30, Jeremy Hendricks wrote: > > I imagine it’s a bios limitation and it cannot address the full 4GB even > though it’s a 64bit CPU. This was common with the Intel 925/945 chipsets > even th

Re: [OT] coo, was Re: Debian release criteria.

Re: [OT] coo, was Re: Debian release criteria. On Sat Jan 7 13:37:31 2023 cu...@free.fr wrote: > On 2023-01-07, Greg Wooledge wrote: > >> To an American audience, the meaning is quite different. >> We only use "coo" to describe the noise made by a dove, >> or as an (urban) slang term which is

Re: How can I check (and run) if an *.exe is a DOS or a Windows program?

On Sat Jan 7 17:34:05 2023 wrote: > On Sat, Jan 07, 2023 at 08:47:09AM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > >> If I remember correctly, dos and windows .com and .exe programs >> all have control-z as their first character. The file command >> may also help. > > No. Control-Z (aka 0x1a) was an EOF cha