RE: Batch files

["Mark Paulus" <commpg at yahoo dot com>]

start already does the invoking of the proper program based upon
it's windows file association (do a 'start "window title" file.ext).
Also, doesn't WinNT provide support for defining executable 
extensions via the PATHEXT environment variable??  Can't that
be built upon?


On Fri, 30 Mar 2001 15:44:25 -0600, Glen Coakley wrote:

>
>cmd will grok it because it will look for a command called #!, which step
>one instructs you to create. A note on step #2. You will want #!.exe in the
>path that is set in Windows and in cgywin's bash but, it only has to be in
>the path once. So, if you have added cygwin/bin to your normal windows path,
>you shouldn't need to put it in windows/system32.
>
>While we are on the topic of paths, you would really only need to add 
>	#! cmd /c
>as the first line of the batch file, since windows/system32 is always in the
>windows path and cygwin builds it path on that.
>
>I think I speak for many though, when I say that it would be nice to have
>more intuitive support, such as it just working. I have many batch files
>that I would rather not convert. Perhaps cygwin could recognize a first line
>of "@echo off" as a DOS batch file and run the interpreter. Even better, and
>I have wondered for a long time why I haven't seen this yet, programs could
>be invoked on any file based on the results of that file's magic (see: man
>file). 
>
>________________________________
>Glen Coakley, Sr. Software Engineer
>MQSoftware Inc., (763) 543-4845
>Have you ever wonder what happens when you run "rm -rf / " but been afraid
>to try it?
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Andrew Markebo [mailto:flognat@flognat.myip.org]
>> Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 2:09 PM
>> To: Earnie Boyd
>> Subject: Re: Batch files
>> 
>> 
>> Will cmd still grokk the batch-file if you have a #! on the first
>> line??
>> 
>>         /Andy
>> 
>> / Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> | "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" wrote:
>> | > 
>> | > At 11:17 AM 3/30/2001, Matt Minnis wrote:
>> | > 
>> | > >Is there a way to get Cygwin to recognize that *.bat 
>> files are executeable as:
>> | > >fred.bat & fred (without the .bat)?
>> | > 
>> | > Anything's possible.  foo.bat works for me though.
>> | > 
>> | 
>> | Hmm...  This isn't a FAQ yet?!
>> | 
>> | I've explained many times how to do this. 
>> | 
>> | 1) Create a noop program named #!.exe
>> | 2) Install the it in C:/cygwin/bin and C:/windows/system32/
>> | 3) Add `#! c:/windows/system32/cmd /c' to the .bat file as the first
>> | line.
>> | 
>> | Earnie.
>> | 
>> | P.S.:
>> | 
>> | cat << EOD > noop.c
>> | int main (void) {return 0;}
>> | EOD
>> | gcc -o \#\!.exe noop.c
>> | 
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