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Date:	Mon, 15 Aug 2005 08:07:48 -0700
From:	Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <sthoenna AT efn DOT org>
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Subject:	Re: Another (differently) broken man on CygWin 1.5.8 -- Apropos still troublesome
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On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 03:00:49PM +0000, Eric Blake wrote:
> > There is a man directory in /usr/bin, i.e., /usr/bin/man --
> > with man.exe being the program, while manpath gives:
> 
> This sentence was confusing.  Are you telling me that
> /usr/bin/man exists and is a directory (does it have normal
> subdirectories like man1?), and that /usr/bin/man.exe exists
> and is the program?  I'm trying to see if there is anything
> weird about auto-.exe magic in coreutils.

I would think that since auto-.exe magic (whether in coreutils or in
cygwin1.dll) exists for purposes of linux compatibility, it need not
work well or at all in the presence of a file or directory of the same
name without the .exe, so I wouldn't sweat it.

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