The Old New Thing

February 10, 2014 - The Old New Thing

Excuses I learned from babies

February 10, 2014 Feb 10, 2014 02/10/14
Raymond Chen
I was visiting a friend of mine, and his young daughter was being unusually cranky. He explained, "Oh, she's teething." I filed that away as an excuse I could use the next time I felt cranky. "Sorry about that. I'm teething." Here's another excuse you might want to use: "No, I'm not drunk. I simply lost interest in remaining upright...

Execute a file as if it were a program, even though its extension is not EXE

February 10, 2014 Feb 10, 2014 02/10/14
Raymond Chen
Today's Little Program executes a file as if it were a program, even though its extension is not EXE. The idea here is to prevent somebody from running your program by accident, so you give it an extension like . This is great for preventing somebody from running the program by mistake, but how do you do it on purpose? We're merely using ...