From: j DOT aldrich6 AT genie DOT com
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 96 06:51:00 UTC 0000
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Subject: Re: Paths and .COM files

Reply to message 6703891    from JETMAN AT GNN DOT CO on 04/12/96  1:15AM


>>As for there being no reason to make .COMs anymore, heck -- what
>>about WIN.COM? :)
>
>	Let's not bring MSOFT into this ! :-)  Most of that particular
>file is a displayable bitmap (the Windows 3.1x sign-on.)  Talk
>about boneheaded !   Jet

In a word:  ewwwww...  :)  I guess they do it that way to make it difficult
for anybody to simply edit the bitmap, or substitute a different one.  It
probably has more to do with paranoia than boneheadedness, although
there is more than enough of the latter at Microsoft to go around.

Did you ever think that a large part of Bill Gates' plan to rule the world
must involve keeping MS users so confused that they can't see straight?
"Reduce them to helpless, quivering subservience, and you will own
them..."  And I always wondered why I like Unix so much...

John  :/