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Re: .exe magic reloaded 2
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at freemail dot ru>
- To: Al <oss dot elmar at googlemail dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 21:20:07 +0400
- Subject: Re: .exe magic reloaded 2
- References: <AANLkTimrrA-cW8t9u=axyxQt+AyHcckybVRjksFYM6Bg@mail.gmail.com>
- Reply-to: Andrey Repin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
Greetings, Al!
> I have another interesting case where .exe magic doesn't work as
> transparently as one would expect.
> I have a file python2.6.exe. A script tries to find it with "ls
> python2.?". It is not found.
I'm fairly certain, that the script is bugged in this specific case.
It should be looking for python2.* instead.
Minor version could have any length... potentially. (And yes, I know, there
wouldn't be .10 for now)
> Here the script needs a modification to work with Cygwin, but we can't
> really say that there is a bug in the script.
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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 15.09.2010, <21:18>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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