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Date:	Mon, 26 May 2003 09:55:23 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To:	zzapper <david AT tvis DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject:	Re: recognising .bat as an executable
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On Mon, 26 May 2003, zzapper wrote:

> Hi Y'All
>
> How do I get bash to recognise a MSDOS batch file as an executable
>
> At present I have to type ppm.bat in full, rather just ppm
> zzapper

"cmd /c ppm" or do an "ln -s ppm.bat ppm" first.

This raises a similar issue: "vi" and "egrep" cannot be invoked from
cmd.exe, because cmd doesn't recognize symbolic links.  A solution to this
would be to also create "vi.bat" and "egrep.bat".  I'm not suggesting that
this be done in the default package installation (although it wouldn't
hurt), but I wanted to get this into the archives.
	Igor
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