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Re: No such file or directory
- To: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Subject: Re: No such file or directory
- From: Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 10:50:55 -0500
- Cc: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <20000327135531.13723.qmail@web109.yahoomail.com>
- Reply-To: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 05:55:31AM -0800, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>--- 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?
Then foo wins, of course.
>What is going to change install or Cygwin1.dll?
When I refer to cygwin, I mean the DLL.
>P.S.: What is cygwin@hotpop.com?
No idea.
cgf
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