Managed mounts and .exe files (Was Re: cp, install, and the .exe extension)

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Feb 21 23:07, Robert R Schneck wrote:
> Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
> > FWIW, WinNT/2k/XP allow executables to not have a .exe extension.
> 
> I wasn't aware of it, and haven't been able to figure it out in a couple 
> of minutes of playing around and Googling.  How?

On NT, the CreateProcess call allows any name, also with no extension,
as executable file name.  Not so on 9x/Me.

Corinna

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