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Date:	Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:12:34 -0400
From:	Volker Quetschke <quetschke AT scytek DOT de>
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Subject:	Re: tcsh doesn't find commands that end with .exe
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>>>>I have the following problem with tcsh:
>>>>
>>>>tcsh doesn't find the program if the .exe extension is given.  whoami is
>>>>only an example, this also happens to other programs.
>>>>
>>>>[quetschke AT Macros ~]$ which whoami
>>>>/usr/bin/whoami
>>>>[quetschke AT Macros ~]$ which whoami.exe
>>>>whoami.exe: Command not found.
>>>>(snip)
>>>
>>>That's by design.
>>
>>You mean the grand design that leads earth and all its inhabitants
>>to eternal bliss?
>>
>>And if so, it seems to have a flaw:
>>
>>[quetschke AT Macros ~]$ which cmd.exe
>>/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/cmd.exe
>>[quetschke AT Macros ~]$ which cmd
>>/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/cmd
>>
>>Care to elaborate where the difference comes from?
>>
>>Why should I not be allowed to start a program with it's
>>real name? And why does it work sometimes?
>
> Dunno why it prints cmd.exe but by design (minus flaws) tcsh only
> starts applications given w/o path if the application is in the
> internal hash table.  The internal hash table stores the application
> names w/o .exe suffix.
And all lower case, (cygwin only). Try something like this:

Put progA.exe in /mytestexedir and add that to your PATH.

Start a tcsh and type "prog<TAB>"
[quetschke AT Macros ~]$ prog
progA    progman

Aha progA, good try this.

[quetschke AT Macros ~]$ progA
progA: Command not found.

Hmmm, try proga:

[quetschke AT Macros ~]$ proga
(here will be the output of progA.exe)

Well, better don't use mixed cases.

> If you need something different: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC.
The maintainer might think about removing "strlwr(dp->d_name);"
from line 776 of sh.exec.c .

Oh and somehow tcsh's hash cannot handle directories with very many
files (i.e. /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/) therefore it doesn't seem
to hash them and does a real lookup instead. (I didn't look hard enough
at the code to really proove this, but just copy everything from
  /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/ into /mytestexedir/ and you will see
that proga progA.exe proga.exe can now be found and accessed. Just like
cmd CMD cmd.exe CMD.EXE .... )

Volker

P.S.:
$ ll /mytestexedir/ | wc -l
2051

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