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Larry, et al --
=2E..and then Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) said...
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% At 03:09 PM 6/3/2002, David T-G wrote:
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% >...and then Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) said...
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% >% The email archives is the place to look and look hard for something li=
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% >I did, too, but I didn't find anything that looked familiar -- and yet I
% >could swear that I had just seen this go by before.
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% Well, like I said, I didn't do anything more than ask for messages with=
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% "batch" in them. Earnie's response was the fourth one based on score.
Yeah; I went farther than that.
% I definitely wasn't looking with something particular in mind. I just=20
% reviewed what was returned in the order it was returned.
Understood.
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% >My recollection is that there's a parameter in the cygwin world where you
% >can add .bat to the extensions list that the shell should automatically
% >append to an unqualified name so that it knows to run .bat files just
% >like .exe and .com files. I haven't found that setting, though. While
% >it certainly may not exist, I can hardly believe that I dreamed it or
% >that I so badly misremembered something else...
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% I can't clarify your memory for you either. I can say that I don't know=
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You can't?!? Darn; I keep looking for someone who can help me with
that ;-)
% of such a facility. The closest I know of is an analogous one in DOS whi=
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% uses PATHEXT. That said, I've never had a problem with typing the full n=
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Hmmm... That sounds familiar; maybe I have the two reversed. Time for
more searching...
% to the batch file (i.e. <name>.bat) at the bash (or ash for that matter)=
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% prompt and getting the batch file to run properly. I haven't set anythin=
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Same here; it's just nice to not have to remember to tack on the .bat if
possible.
% particular to get this to happen. It's just always worked for me, so lon=
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% Cygwin thought the batch file was executable (i.e. chmod +x <name>.bat). =
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That's something I also never had to do, but I understand that mount
means I might (or, conversely, could consider a file *not* executable,
which was impossible under B20, where I was last and where I still find
myself thinking at times).
% But, of course, creating #!.exe and adding it as the first line to the ba=
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% file is exactly what tells Cygwin that this file should be treated as an=
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% executable. So #!.exe is just another option if you can't get what you=
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% want/need from chmod (like on 9x/Me systems).
Since I'm on 98, that may be exactly what I need.
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% >*definitely* news to me (and some of the followups intimated that it
% >might be problematic), I wonder myself if there is a simple way to tell
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% I'm not sure what posts you're referring to when you suggest that #!.exe
% is problematic. I went back and reviewed the thread there and saw no
% outstanding concerns about #!.exe. Perhaps you could qualify that statem=
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% better.
I suppose I misread Jan's post farther down in the thread, where he says
that running "foo" still doesn't work. Unfortunately, the thread peters
out there.
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% Obviously, you're welcome to pursue any .bat file issue you have further =
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% I see nothing wrong with the observations and solutions posted so far. T=
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% address the stated concern of being able to run a batch file from Cygwin=
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% shells AFAICS.
Yeah, I can keep tacking .bat on the end at the prompt and in the meantime
keep scratching my head waiting to put the pieces back together again :-)
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% Larry Hall lhall AT rfk DOT com
% RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com
% 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
% Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX
Thanks & HAND
:-D
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