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Re: [OT] is swen evoluting ?



On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 12:49:54AM +0200, benoit wrote:
> hi,
> 
> 
> i've received thousands of swens, each with a '.exe' file.
> 
> i've just received a '.bat' swen, i'm surprised. am i the only one to
> get one ?
> 
> 
> $ md5sum *bat
> b09e26c292759d654633d3c8ed00d18d  gawyvom.bat (same as usually)
> $ file gawyvom.bat 
> gawyvom.bat: MS-DOS executable (EXE), OS/2 or MS Windows

No, I've had 73 out of 3851 claiming to be a .bat. As your file output
shows, it's really a .exe. Contrary to popular belief M$ executables
can have any extension, the .exe is not mandatory. The loader figures
it out by looking for the .exe signature in the file.

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