TSGL: AppleMac

[Ron Brunton]

MACs cannot run Windows .exe files at all. The executable file (.exe) is
designed very specifically to meet the criteria of the operating system
(with the family history from DOS). Until recently, the CPU architecture was
totally different (Intel vs. PowerPC). Even with the switch to Intel CPU,
the OS arranges the code very differently.

OS X and Windows can understand some common file formats such as JPEG, GIF,
TIFF, plain text (ASCII), HTML and some applications recognize files created
by the same application on the other system (MS Word and Excel for example),
but this is because the files use the same characters (printable and
non-printable) and the applications organize them the same way.

Hope this helps.

Ron

-----Original Message-----
From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On
Behalf Of Don Penlington
Sent: December 18, 2006 8:27 AM
To: 'Tech Support Guy Mailing List'
Subject: TSGL: AppleMac

Can someone tell me if a stand-alone .exe file for a PC will run on an 
AppleMac? If not, would just changing the file extension to whatever Apples 
use help?

I suspect they speak an entirely different language.  What about .txt files?

Don Penlington
 From the Beach at Surfers Paradise in sunny Queensland.
Computer tutorials, local scenery,  and other things at my website:
http://users.tpg.com.au/deepend/index1.html


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