std.path.getName(): Screwy by design?

["Jérôme M. Berger"]

Kagamin wrote:
> Don Wrote:
> 
>> ??????
>> It ALWAYS makes a difference. For example, only .exe and .com files are 
>> executable.
>> On unix, the filename is just a name. Nothing more. By contrast, the 
>> Windows extension actually matters. They're completely different.
> 
> What do you mean? You can run .js and .vbs files as well.

	No you cannot. What happens is that you *open* them with the
default application, which just happens to be an interpreter whose
default action is to run the script. Try renaming a .exe into .js
and it will not run, whereas on Unix it would.

		Jerome
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