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Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 11:51:11 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-cygwin@cygwin.com>
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Subject: Re: (setup.ini) autoconf requires Perl?
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On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 11:33:25AM -0400, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
>P.S. How about renaming Cygwin Perl to "perl" instead of "perl.exe"?

Renaming perl to something without a .exe extension would mean that
people in Windows 9x land wouldn't be able to run it.  It's possible
that it would mean that you wouldn't be able to run it from the command
prompt on Windows NT, too.

cgf

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