Hello andrew!

Replying to a message of andrew clarke to Darin McBride:

 ac> Sat 2003-05-24 21:17, Darin McBride (1:250/102) wrote to Neil Heller:

 DM>> No.  Unix executables generally do not have extentions.  Using EXE or
 DM>> COM or BAT or other such nonsense was a Microsoft hack when they
 DM>> removed the extra attributes that unix files get.

 ac> Actually I'm not sure you can blame Microsoft for that.  I get the
 ac> feeling this behaviour predates DOS (think CP/M). 

Oh, I can blame Microsoft for it.  That doesn't make my blame well-placed,
but I can still blame them.  ;-)

Darin

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