Mailing-List:	contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe:	<mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive:	<http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post:	<mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help:	<mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender:	cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To:	mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From:	"Kris Thielemans" <kris DOT thielemans AT csc DOT mrc DOT ac DOT uk>
To:	"Kris Thielemans" <kris DOT thielemans AT csc DOT mrc DOT ac DOT uk>, <ADeFaria AT Salira DOT com>
Cc:	"Gnuwin" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject:	RE: Re: Problems with .exe files
Date:	Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:31:14 +0100
Message-ID:	<NBBBKKHEOHOEPNCALMIGMEJBDMAA.kris.thielemans@ic.ac.uk>
MIME-Version:	1.0
X-Priority:	3 (Normal)
X-MSMail-Priority:	Normal
Importance:	Normal
X-MimeOLE:	Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400
In-Reply-To:	<NBBBKKHEOHOEPNCALMIGIEJBDMAA.kris.thielemans@ic.ac.uk>

oops. that went off too fast. ignore previous email. sorry

Hi Andrew

> Why would you think that you can cp t as just "t" but you'd 
> have to touch "t.exe"? 
> The real name of the file is t.exe, for touch, cp, rm, etc. The 
> only time that just "t" suffices is for exec.
> 
Because it used to work on older cygwin. I suspect exactly to get 
Makefile and other automated processes tow rok, and I quite like it.
 
For example on an older cygwin (1.3.22-1)

 touch t.exe
 cp t a
 ls a   -> says a exists
 ls a*  -> says a.exe exists
 

However, I now notice that 

 rm t

doesn't work on that version as well, so that's not new behaviour.


Kris

--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/

- Raw text -