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Re: No such file or directory
- To: Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>,"cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com" <cygwin at hotpop dot com>
- Subject: Re: No such file or directory
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 05:55:31 -0800 (PST)
- Reply-To: earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com
--- Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 10:40:13PM -0500, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
> wrote:
> >Looks to me like your big problem is the install program which assumes the
> >UNIX convention of executables without extensions (.exe). It looks for
> >remind and not remind.exe, which is what exists.
>
> I wonder if it would really be a big deal if cygwin, by default, found a
> file "foo.exe" if there was no existing file "foo".
>
> We keep running into this problem and I wonder if implementing this in
> cygwin would solve more problems than it causes.
>
What a concept Chris! ;^) It sounds like an awesome task. What happens if foo
and foo.exe exists? What is going to change install or Cygwin1.dll?
Regards,
Earnie
P.S.: What is cygwin@hotpop.com?
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