On Sat, 17 Dec 2011, Mouse wrote:
I actually meant Unixy OS,
I wondered about that, but you DID say "any OS"
But as a result of that mistake, I now know more than
I did before
about MS-DOS. (I'm tempted to say, more than I ever wanted to know,
but such knowledge is never wasted....) Thank you.
OK, short version with less unwanted info: MS-DOS provides for extensions;
.COM, .EXE, and .BAT have meaning to the CLI. ALL other extensions are
for user or transient programs.