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No such file, but it's right there
- From: Shing-Fat Fred Ma <fma at doe dot carleton dot ca>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 20:47:58 -0500
- Subject: No such file, but it's right there
- References: <1037578894.25490.ezmlm@cygwin.com>
>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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