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No such file, but it's right there


>Well the files are, of course, ftp.exe and telnet.exe.
>Cygwin's automagical .exe workarounds seems to not be working when going
>through a mount where there is no underlying directory.
>
>Max.
>

> Cygwin follows the Windows convention of using file file name suffix
> ".exe" for its binary executable files. While Cygwin will locate and
> execute files files given only the base name (sans suffix), other uses
> ("cat," "less," or more apropos "nm," "size" or "file") demand the
> full file name, including the ".exe" suffix.
>
> Randall Schulz
> Mountain View, CA USA


Thanks.

Fred

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Carleton University, Dept. of Electronics
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