Start of dmd 2.064 beta program

eles eles at eles.com
Thu Oct 31 08:15:42 PDT 2013


On Thursday, 31 October 2013 at 14:45:46 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> File content should have nothing to do with extension, it is as 
> good part of name as any other. Adding any extra meaning to it 
> is just some DOS legacy.

When I first came to Linux I was wondering how the OS knows it 
should execute some file that wasn't bearing the .exe/.com 
extensions.

"And who tells the OS this is an executable file? How could Linux 
know it without the .exe or .com at the end?"

Well, I was DOSwashed.


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