Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 19:06:17 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: "Lee D. Rothstein" cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: .com & other executable filename extensions In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.0.20030312184707.02b1be38@rogue.codemeta.com> Message-ID: Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Lee D. Rothstein wrote: > Anybody know why under both "cygwin.bat" & 'cmd.exe', I must explicitly > type the '.com' extension in order to get a '.com' file to execute. > > I've tried adding the following line to > 'cygwin.bat': > > set PATHEXT=%PATHEXT%;.sf;.ksf;.cmd;.com;.exe;.bat;.awk;.pl;.py > > No help. > If this is covered anywhere in the documentation, it's got me fooled. > Lee FYI, bash (which is what I assume is invoked by cygwin.bat) doesn't honor PATHEXT. Cygwin has a special feature that looks for a .exe (and only .exe, .bat won't be found either) if the file with null extension does not exist. I'm not sure about cmd.exe, probably depends on your version of the OS (or maybe MS deprecated it altogether). Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Oh, boy, virtual memory! Now I'm gonna make myself a really *big* RAMdisk! -- /usr/games/fortune -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/