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"but it is fair to say that .com files are rarely seen by users any more; on Windows, .com has mostly been supplanted by .exe except in some exotic situations."
by weinzierl 3y ago
"but it is fair to say that .com files are rarely seen by users any more; on Windows, .com has mostly been supplanted by .exe except in some exotic situations."
Now "rarely", "mostly" and exotic situations" made me curious. Is there any chance at all to get a *.com file running on a any windows not older than two decades?
- ericlaw 3y ago.com files still work fine on Windows; Visual Studio installs devenv.com, for example (IIRC, it's there for a somewhat wacky reason. See %PATHEXT%)
- disconcision 3y agoout of curiosity i checked my relatively recent windows 10 installation. i see 102 files ending in .com; 13 if filtered to unique files names. 12 in the windows folder, and 1 in a game folder. most of the windows folder ones are in System32m WinSXS, and SysWow64 subdirs, as well as some windows update subfolders. so it looks like mostly for win32 compatibility. i tried running system32/tree.com in powershell and it works fine