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Re: Running Windows scripts & PATHEXT
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 11:47:36 -0400
- Subject: Re: Running Windows scripts & PATHEXT
- References: <cgvhro$5uj$1@sea.gmane.org>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 08:41:38AM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>So it seems that bash does not take into account the PATHEXT variable
>when searching for executables. Now I know that PATHEXT is very
>Window'ish and bash need not support it but perhaps Cygwin's bash does
>somehow and I merely need to configure it correctly?
I would surely hope that bash would not be bloated to support a
windows-ism like this.
However, it seems like simply downloading the bash sources and searching
for the string "PATHEXT" would satisfy our curiousity.
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