Unix file extensions (Was: make apache2 serve file as htmL...)
Sy Ali
sy1234-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Fri Jan 19 12:55:14 UTC 2007
On 1/18/07, Walter Dnes <waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Windows examined the file, noted that it
> began with 2 bytes "MZ", and decided to execute it instead. The rest
> was history.
Some quick searching had me learn that those are the initials of Mark
Zbikowski, the designer of the MS-DOS executable file format.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Zbikowski
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