12 Apr
2011
12 Apr
'11
12:23 p.m.
On Tue, 12 Apr 2011, Liam Proven wrote:
Most of us only have one or two legs of the elephant, . . .
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com
Edit.*com* if you were running on MS-DOS 5 through
6.22. This means QBASIC.
Edit.*exe* if you were running on Win95 or later. This is the
standalone, multi-file editor.
Simple as that.
Thanks for solving the question.
.EXE and .COM names could be interchanged! . . . and effect the sequence
of choice if there were two programs with same name and different
extensions! The REAL test (AFTER DOS decided which one to run) was
whether the first two bytes were 'MZ', which would then invoke the .EXE
handler.
OB_Historical_trivia: Was there really a "Mark Zbikowski" at Microsoft?
I must be
missing something in your explanation.
Or mine...