New TLDs: Not Bad

Re:New TLDs: Not Bad by weinzierl on Saturday May 13, 2023 @04:34PM (#35932417)

"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?

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Re:New TLDs: Not Bad by ericlaw on Saturday May 13, 2023 @04:42PM (#35932490)

.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%)

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Re:New TLDs: Not Bad by disconcision on Saturday May 13, 2023 @04:53PM (#35932591)

out 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

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