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Re: .exe magic reloaded
On Sep 6 14:56, Al wrote:
> >
> > It's definitely a bug in perl's Configure. ÂIf the name of the symlink
> > is "foo", there's not the faintest reason to assume that "foo.exe" should
> > work at all.
> >
> >
> > Corinna
> >
>
> Magic is when it does the right thing magically. With your approach
> you don't need any magic at all.
You don't seem to understand the magic here. The magic is to add the
.exe suffix to a filename. If you have a file foo.exe and call foo, you
get foo.exe. If you have a symlink foo-sym pointing to foo, and you
call foo-sym, you also get foo.exe, since the exe magic still works
after the symlink has been evaluated. However, if you call
foo-syml.exe, you made a mistake. There is no file called foo-sym.exe,
which could be opened, neither is there a symlink called foo-sym.exe.
The magic is to *add* the .exe suffix automatically, not *removing* it
when you specified it wrongly. If you think that further, you would
also expect that I can open a file foo.txt by calling `vim foo.txt.exe'.
Corinna
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