Hi!
24-Фев-2004 20:12 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aitor Santamari'a Merino) wrote to
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ASM> (I've always considered it a very bad idea that Microsoft
ASM> chose DOC for the Microsoft Word native files, precisely because there
ASM> are many plain text files with extension DOC already too).
But this is MS and we should (yet) get it in account.
>>attrib.com - ATTRIB utility executable
ASM> so you are not specifically puting it into BIN
_My_ computer contains BIN directory, which earlier wa UTIL. But I
don't _feel_ that adding extra BIN subdirectory into existing directory (be
it BORLAND, WATCOM or FDOS) is a good idea (unless there different hosts,
like BINDOS, BINWIN, BINNT).
ASM> (as a side note, this is unix-ish notation that I never liked much,
ASM> because in my understanding this folder is to be used in Unix/Linux for
ASM> executables in machine-binary language, whereas there might be BINary
ASM> DATA files, that are binary but not executable, but that are not normally
ASM> put there, or am I wrong?).
Data usually not separated as "binary" or "not binary" (ie. textual),
whereas BIN is not worsest name. :) How else? EXE?
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