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Re: No such file or directory

To: "cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com" <cygwin at hotpop dot com>
Subject: Re: No such file or directory
From: Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 22:48:27 -0500
References: <38DBEF82.7DF664AD@netmcr.com> <4.3.2.20000325222901.00d398a0@pop.ma.ultranet.com>

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.

cgf

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