Making an executable file in notepad is like trying to write a song in notepad. If you were to view an .exe in notepad all that you would see is a jumbled mess of numbers and symbols. However, if you really wanted to you could write a program using a programing language like C# or Pascal in notepad and later convert it to an executable.
Here is to show part of an exe file looks like in notepad.
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Executable means that the file has a series of instructions used to execute a program. Non-executable files are ones that do not have these instructions.
Executable files usually contain a header, which identifies it as an executable file, and a list of commands to be executed by the processor.
Notepad files aren't something that just pop up on your system. You have to make them through the program called Notepad, which can be found at Start>All Programs>Accessories>Notepad. Once you have made the notepad document, you can save it somewhere on the computer, and then it is an editable Notepad file.
In general you do not. Nearly all executable files are coded in a computer programming language, and then compiled into executable files. So to modify an executable, you would need the source code for the program, you would modify the source code and then recompile into a NEW version of the executable. Linux does provide for an executable script file, but these are more scripts than executable files.
In notepad put your code and save it as a .bat
difference between executable file and non-executable file in dos
They're .exe files
The main Excel program file (excel.exe) is an executable file, but the workbooks it creates are not executable files.
There are some kinds of files which can be executed in windows :.EXE : executable programs.com : System booter.bat : batch file is a list of executable files which will be executed when the .bat file is called
The default file extension for notepad is .txt. However, you can designate notepad as the primary application for any extension.
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Executable flash files can be run on any windows file system.