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Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 20:56:03 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com>
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Subject: Re: Running Windows scripts & PATHEXT
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On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 04:29:37PM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>
>>Ugh. I fully agree with CGF - the "hide the extension" business is 
>>ugly, counterproductive, and should not be used.
>
>Well Cygwin's already doing it WRT things like .exe and .lnk... :-)

A necessary evil does not usually evolve into a nifty new feature.

cgf

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