Understanding exe. on mac

There are lot of ways to understand exe. on mac. you may prefer Wine to create wrapper which is allow you to run exe. file on mac.

Exe files are made to run on Windows. Macs don't have Windows.

You can't open a .exe file in a text editor. It doesn't matter what OS you are using. The .exe files are binary files, they don't contain ascii characters, so when you open them in a text editor they will look like gibberish.

Also, a standard windows .exe file won't run on a Mac anyway because it's been compiled for a Windows system.

You can load an emulator like WINE (someone mentioned this above), but that still won't help you open the file in a text editor, it will only allow the emulator to execute the code.

I got thumbed down for saying exactly that; I don't know why.

I don't know either. Except maybe it's because that's all you said, and it wasn't really what they were asking. I don't know, that's just a guess.

I'm drooller with an antique mac and read your conversations.
Please do not be nasty. Part of how I live is how I can navigate.

You can't open a .exe file in a text editor. It doesn't matter what OS you are using. The .exe files are binary files, they don't contain ASCII characters, so when you open them in a text editor they will look like gibberish.

Also, a standard Windows .exe file won't run on a Mac anyway because it's been compiled for a Windows system.

You can load an emulator like WINE (someone mentioned this above), but that still won't help you open the file in a text editor, it will only allow the emulator to execute the code.

That's an exact copy of what Rosborn said. Can you describe in detail how you managed to copy and paste so well?

The only way you can use exe files on mac is if you use some sort of file conversion so it will run on OSX.

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