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On Wed, 24 Jun 2015 16:16:37 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards
<invalid@invalid.invalid> declaimed the following:


>If you don't want a file to be executed, then don't make it
>executable.  Or doesn't Windows have any way to control whether a file
>is executable or not?

	If you can specify a fully qualified path/extension, and if the target
is readable, it likely is executable...

	Text scripts less so if the interpreter is not associated with the
extension.

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