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 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: Running Windows scripts & PATHEXT Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 18:21:46 -0700 Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: <20040831005603.GC24132@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.9.207.207 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7+ (Windows/20040827) In-Reply-To: <20040831005603.GC24132@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> X-IsSubscribed: yes Christopher Faylor wrote: > 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. Guess I was just looking to expand on the necessity of the evil! :-( -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/