On Thu, 16 Nov 2000 15:46:51 -0800, Scott Lambert wrote:
>file itself. (Under Windows for example a file must be a *.EXE file, there
>is no equivalent "permission".)

Not necessarily.  Other types of files are executable as well; most notably
.BAT and .COM files.  NT even lets you specify what extensions will be tried;
the default is PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH

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