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When a script's shebang line has a windows path, rather than a cygwin 
path, it does not work:

rkitover AT eeebox ~
$ head -1 /cygdrive/c/Perl64/site/bin/ack
#!C:\Perl64\bin\perl

rkitover AT eeebox ~
$ /cygdrive/c/Perl64/site/bin/ack --version
Can't open perl script "/cygdrive/c/Perl64/site/bin/ack": No such file 
or directory

On msys (msysGit) this works correctly:

rkitover AT EEEBOX ~
$ /c/Perl64/site/bin/ack --version
ack 1.94
Running under Perl 5.12.2 at C:\Perl64\bin\perl.exe

Copyright 2005-2010 Andy Lester.

This program is free software.  You may modify or distribute it
under the terms of the Artistic License v2.0.

Any chance this could be fixed? This would be a very nice feature for 
users of Strawberry Perl and similar.

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