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>> >Right. =A0That's why I thought that any suffix given in the target file
>> >name should be sufficient to avoid appending the .exe suffix, but
>> >apparently it isn't. =A0Probably we would need to check for any kind
>> >of Windows executable suffix like .exe, .sys, .com. =A0I have to admit,
>> >though, that I never saw a .src suffix for a Windows binary...
>>
>> Well, in this case we could just look for alphabetic suffixes. =A0But th=
at's
>> probably too kludgy.
>
> Worth a try, at least.

What about using the PATHEXT environment variable as a source for
possible extensions?

Chris

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Chris Sutcliffe
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