James Sparenberg said: > On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 10:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > Well, I was under the impression that windows decided how to handle a >> > program based on the extension; i.e., if you call a .jpg a .blah, even >> > though it has photoshop installed on the machine, it will choke and >> say it >> > doesn't know how to open a .blah file. >> >> Yes... Winders will use the extension to determine what app gets to open >> the file. It always amuses me how different applications will compete to >> become the default app and the warnings that tell you that bad things >> will >> happen if you change from the (usually) MS defaults. >> >> > Maybe if you renamed the .jpg to .tif though, you could get the >> photoshop >> > program to open and then it would take over and decide to display the >> > image correctly? >> >> Depends somewhat on the application. Some of them will inspect the >> header >> of the file to make sure that it's correct. Others will blindly attempt >> to >> load the data file. >> >> > In my short research on google, I read that a pif was similar to a bat >> > file; can a bat file contain compiled code also? >> >> True PIF files contain information on how to run a program. It was >> mostly >> used in early versions of Windows for running DOS mode programs. > > intresting point here. your statement is correct but it actually > contains a warning (the binary) that it can't run in DOS mode *grin* >> >> A bat file can contain compiled code, but not in the usual sense. You >> can >> encode a binary file into a .bat and then use the bat to write a binary >> and then execute it. This is actually pretty common on Linux, but is >> possible on Windows.
Cool, thanks for the info! Mike
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