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Difference between *.cmd and *.bat?

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Name: sonylloyd
Date: June 19, 2005 at 20:02:07 Pacific
OS: WinXP
CPU/Ram: PenIII450MHZ/512
Comment:

Hi,
I was wandering what was the difference
between *.cmd and *.bat? Both seems to do the exact same batch scripting job.
So whay are there cmd and bat files?
Thanks for clarifying.



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Name: Jennifer SUMN
Date: June 20, 2005 at 05:07:00 Pacific
Reply:

They're not exactly the same file type.

Check this site:

http://filext.com/


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