On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 06:54:40AM +0100, Martin Str|mberg wrote: > In article <qvjtp-2c...@gated-at.bofh.it> David Wright > <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote: > > As for script-file extensions in DOS, there was really only .BAT > > wasn't there?, so the idea of distinguishing .bash, .csh, .py, .pl, > > .sh, .zsh etc as being inherited from DOS is difficult for me to > > understand. > > Perhaps it's because (MS)DOS begat WINDOWS that only knew how to run > something based on the extension?
That's what I understood the comment to mean. -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X
