Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com From: Chris Faylor Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 22:48:27 -0500 To: "cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com" Subject: Re: No such file or directory Message-ID: <20000325224827.A30310@cygnus.com> Mail-Followup-To: cgf@cygnus.com, "cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com" References: <38DBEF82.7DF664AD@netmcr.com> <4.3.2.20000325222901.00d398a0@pop.ma.ultranet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.1.8i In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.20000325222901.00d398a0@pop.ma.ultranet.com>; from lhall@rfk.com on Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 10:40:13PM -0500 On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 10:40:13PM -0500, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: >Looks to me like your big problem is the install program which assumes the >UNIX convention of executables without extensions (.exe). It looks for >remind and not remind.exe, which is what exists. I wonder if it would really be a big deal if cygwin, by default, found a file "foo.exe" if there was no existing file "foo". We keep running into this problem and I wonder if implementing this in cygwin would solve more problems than it causes. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com