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From: dac@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au (Andrew Clayton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Script bits
Message-ID: <18aed960.ARN2b53@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au>
Date: 14 Feb 91 13:08:16 GMT
References: <18ac1a05.ARN2ae4@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au> <H112706.91Feb13112820@lehtori.tut.fi>
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In article <H112706.91Feb13112820@lehtori.tut.fi>, Herranen Henrik writes:

> 
> In article <18ac1a05.ARN2ae4@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au> dac@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au (Andrew Clayton) writes:
> 
>     There is
>    no reason why a binary should start with any particular sequence of
>    characters, right? 

> From that comment I notice that you don't have the faintest idea of how
> the executables are stored on disk. An executable file can NEVER begin
> with the text .key. Executables are recognized by AmigaDOS by the fact
> that the first 4 bytes (or was it 8) is always the same. So, really,
> the script bit is unneeded.

I sit/stand corrected. Thanks heaps. :-(.

> Henrik 'Leopold' Herranen  Internet: h112706@cc.tut.fi

Dac
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Ob. defense, I did put a '?' after my assumption. 1/2:-)
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