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From:	Michael Hoffman <b3i4old02 AT sneakemail DOT com>
Subject:	Re: .exe magic
Date:	Wed, 18 Apr 2007 09:25:23 +0100
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Frank Fesevur wrote:
> Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>> Here's a naive thought.  See if it makes any sense.  We have lots of
>> complicated logic to try to transparently handle ".exe" extensions.
>> We have ".exe" extensions because Windows 9x/Me requires it to execute
>> binaries.  For the upcoming Cygwin 1.7 release (date TBD), we're dropping
>> support for Windows 9x/Me.  Does it follow that complex ".exe" logic
>> could be dropped from 1.7 as a result?
> 
> We have quite some Scheduled Tasks that run bash scripts. The command 
> line is like this:
> C:\Cygwin\bin\bash.exe --login -c /home/administrator/MySQL-backup.sh
> 
> It starts in C:\Cygwin\bin and they work fine right now. I have just 
> tested it (copied bash.exe to bash_test) and it does not seem to be a 
> problem for Scheduled task.
> 
> BUT when I open a command prompt, go to c:\cygwin\bin and try start 
> bash_test it does not find it. Just bash starts fine.
> 
>   C:\Cygwin\bin>bash
>   bash-3.2$ exit
> 
>   C:\Cygwin\bin>bash_test
>   bash_test wordt niet herkend als een interne
>   of externe opdracht, programma of batchbestand.

Well, it will work if you set PATHEXT=%PATHEXT%:. but there might well 
be other consequences.
-- 
Michael Hoffman


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