On 1/7/23 12:25, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
On Sat, Jan 07, 2023 at 08:47:09AM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote:If I remember correctly, dos and windows .com and .exe programs all have control-z as their first character. The file command may also help.No. Control-Z (aka 0x1a) was an EOF character under DOS. Files were (sometimes...) terminated with that. Hilarity ensued when there was stuff after that (DOS/Windows was very hilarious, for some value of hilarious). Cheers
You are being too kind, Tomas. That DOS was not the least bit entertaining. :(> That was the best reason to skip it, I went from amigados 3.9 to rh5.0, never regretted missing the DOS experience, I got my fill of it as the CE at a tv station back in the day.
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