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Date:	Mon, 15 Jan 2001 12:46:11 -0500
To:	Michael Yorg <myorg AT extensity DOT com>,
	"'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
From:	"Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject:	Re: Running .bat files from CYGWIN
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At 12:43 PM 1/15/2001, Michael Yorg wrote:
>I have read that CYGWIN supports running DOS .bat files but the shell seems
>the think that they aren't executable.  The exact error is, 'command not
>found'.  I've used chmod to give the file executable status and it still
>won't work.  Someone recommended running the .bat file from within a shell
>script and that didn't seem to work either.  What am I doing wrong?



Check the mail list archive for discussions on this.  You should be able to 
execute batch files by invoking the command interpreter (i.e. "cmd /c b.bat"
on NT/W2K).  sh (ash) or bash won't know what to do with these files 
otherwise, even if it did read them...




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