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+1  Q: 

Identifying Application from Extension

Can we identify an application is how much bit ie 16/32/64 bit from its extension. .com,.exe,.bin specifies anything like that?

+1  A: 

To the best of my knowledge, no. A quick search came up with this link that might be useful:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/913111

TrueWill  2009-08-29 05:17:54
+1,Good. Expecting linux versions also
cdb  2009-08-29 05:29:09
I looked but didn't find anything for Linux.
TrueWill  2009-08-29 06:07:37
Also on UNIX-like systems (including Linux) most executable files don't have extensions, and if they do, they are meaningless
Adam Batkin  2009-09-15 07:42:52

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