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08-Jun-2004, 08:07 AM #1
linux extensions
what extensions does redhat reconize?
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08-Jun-2004, 10:09 AM #2
Kind of a vague question. Could you elaborate a little more on that?
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08-Jun-2004, 05:36 PM #3
how do you get it to reconize .exe? or other common extensions? or can you?
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08-Jun-2004, 07:15 PM #4
wine thats the way you get linux to recognize exe and other windows formats.

Common extentions for linux are entirely different from windows common extentions.
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08-Jun-2004, 10:25 PM #5
Infact, one could even say that extensions are entirely unnecessary for a linux system. They are simply there for human convinence. Linux systems use magic numbers. (Try the command file..... it's great)
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Gah Whiteskin you make me laugh so often when you out and say something like linux's magic numbers hehe.

In essence its true. You can make a script and name it anything..and run that script.
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09-Jun-2004, 03:50 AM #7
As Whiteskin noted, filename extensions are irrelevant in Linux; the execution properties of a file are determined by a combination of its permissions and its magic number (stored within the file itself). So, for example, you could create a shell script and name it readme.txt -- but that wouldn't restrict what you could do with the file. Similarly, if you named the same script readme.exe, the new name would not bestow any new capabilities on the file (i.e., you would not suddenly be able to "execute" the file simply because the name had changed).

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10-Jun-2004, 04:39 AM #8
thanks for clearing that up. i'm just checking redhat out but im not a programmer so it's difficult for me. i think i'll use xp until i learn more about it.
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