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From: c37189h@saha.hut.fi (Suomalainen Harri Olavi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: .COM and .EXE files
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Date: 15 Oct 89 15:59:09 GMT
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In article <00092@citasim.UUCP> agray@citasim.UUCP (andrew gray) writes:
> 
> This got me to wondering about COM and EXE files, and whether there
>would be any way to fool MS-DOS (or command.com) into using other extenders
>for executable files, and ignoring COM and EXE altogether.  
> Has this been done?  Is it possible?

It sure is easy to do. You could do it the following way: 
1. Rename file.com or file.exe to eg. file.foo . When you're willing to run it 
2. type  file.foo  .
If it has an exe signature it will be considered as an .exe file, 
if not as .com! I tried it this way and it did work!
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