sam fisher posted on Apr 9 2006 at 10:04 PM said:Even though both are exactly the same, its just the browser only displays that specific file type.
Squidge posted on Apr 9 2006 at 05:32 AM said:yup, vimacs is right (for once)
additionally, .gpe causes the file to appear in the "games" menu, whilst .gpu causes it to appear in the "utilities" menu.
GeminiDomino posted on Apr 10 2006 at 08:39 AM said:Not exactly.The extention has nothing to do with being executable in linux (chmod +x does that). It's just a GP2X thing, apparently only to decide which menu something shows up under.
Other than that, it's just an ELF binary, same as any other linux binary.
sand_man posted on Apr 10 2006 at 07:56 AM said:If you ask me it's kind of dumb. They should have just had a simple file browser where you can execute anything from it.
Squidge posted on Apr 10 2006 at 04:06 AM said:sand_man posted on Apr 10 2006 at 07:56 AM said:If you ask me it's kind of dumb. They should have just had a simple file browser where you can execute anything from it.
I think the idea was that by just showing .gpe/.gpu it skipped all the data files, so when you entered a directory, you didn't have to skip the first couple of pages to find the executable.
Squidge posted on Apr 10 2006 at 07:31 AM said:If you keep all your gpe/gpu files in the same directory (say the root), I can see the need.
Clearly, GPH wanted to make a clear distinction between "game" and "utility", otherwise they would just be one way to execute a file.