RE: OT: old com files

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Brian Broker wrote:
> You are quite wrong...
> 
> Windows XP is *not* .NET and is based on Windows 2000 technology.  
okay...

Also, 
> DOS-based *.com executables most certainly do run fine under Windows XP 
> and, in fact, a number of *.com utilities are still part of the OS.  For 
> 
> example:  edit.com, diskcomp.com, diskcopy.com, format.com, mode.com, 
> more.com, and tree.com, to name a few, all work as designed under 
> Windows XP.


actually, edit.com is an EXE file if you look at the header. MS probably 
kept the extension for compatibility

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