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On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 03:14:20PM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote: >"Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" wrote: >> >> At 01:50 PM 1/15/2001, Earnie Boyd wrote: >> > >> >Create a noop program named #!.exe and put it in command.com/cmd.exe >> >PATH. >> >Then at the top of your .bat file put >> > #! c:\\path\\to\\cmd.exe /c >> >and this will cause Cygwin to think it's executable and execute it. >> > >> >> Right but these batch files won't run from cmd.exe/command.com like this >> though. Still, its a way to "convert" batch files to run under the Cygwin >> shells if you don't need them to run under cmd.exe/command.com anymore. >> > >Huh. Of course they will continue to work under cmd.exe/command.com, if >not, they wouldn't work under Cygwin shells either. It's the reason you >create a noop program named `#!.exe'. The cmd.exe/command.com shells >actually execute the program which does nothing more than return 0. Indeed, it sounds like a clever solution to the problem. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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