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From:	Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date:	Sat, 25 Mar 2000 22:48:27 -0500
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Subject:	Re: No such file or directory
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In-Reply-To:	<4.3.2.20000325222901.00d398a0@pop.ma.ultranet.com>; from lhall@rfk.com on Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 10:40:13PM -0500

On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 10:40:13PM -0500, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
>Looks to me like your big problem is the install program which assumes the 
>UNIX convention of executables without extensions (.exe).  It looks for
>remind and not remind.exe, which is what exists.

I wonder if it would really be a big deal if cygwin, by default, found a
file "foo.exe" if there was no existing file "foo".

We keep running into this problem and I wonder if implementing this in
cygwin would solve more problems than it causes.

cgf


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