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Date:	Thu, 15 Nov 2001 12:47:06 +0100
From:	Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: Editing zipped files with VIM under cygwin
Message-ID:	<20011115124706.T27452@cygbert.vinschen.de>
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In-Reply-To:	<5A95B0B37820D511AD1500B0D0AADF774DDE52@lbsvnt4>; from BStrohhaecker@Hueller-Hille.com on Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 11:57:50AM +0100

On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 11:57:50AM +0100, Strohhaecker, Bernd wrote:
> Seems I've been a little hasty when stating everything's ok :-(
> 
> Indeed, vim's function executable("name") returns 1 for everything, 
> also for not existing programs.
> 
> Looking at the sources I've found that:
> 
> 1. vim (6.0.93) tests the existance of 'name' in os_unix.c 
>    inside the function mch_can_exe with:
> 
>    sprintf((char *)buf, "which %s", name);
>    ...
>    retval = (*p != NUL && strstr((char *)p, "not found") == NULL);
>    return retval;
> 
> 2. which (which-1.4) returns, if the command wasn't found:
>    fprintf (stderr, "no %s in %s\n", cmd, PATH);
> 
> Which one should be changed ?
  ^^^^^

  Corinna

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