Jim Henderson wrote:
> ISTR that it used to be (at least) with DOS that the interpreter/shell 
> (ie, command.com) had special handlers for .com and .exe and that you 
> couldn't execute a program with. 

I'm not sure what that means. But yeah, I don't necessarily count 
Explorer (for example) as "part of the OS". It's just a shell.

But that's what I meant by "except maybe EXE and DLL files". I'm not 
sure if the extension is required to be there for some of the exec/spawn 
type calls to work.

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