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Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 21:28:21 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
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Subject: Re: tcsh doesn't find commands that end with .exe
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On Jun 13 11:35, Shankar Unni wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
> >Dunno why it prints cmd.exe but by design (minus flaws) tcsh only
> >starts applications given w/o path if the application is in the
> >internal hash table.  The internal hash table stores the application
> >names w/o .exe suffix.
> 
> Odd. The native build of tcsh on Win32 seems to support this (it hashes 
> both with and without .exe). See http://www.tcsh.org/MostRecentRelease 
> and http://home.blarg.net/~amol/.

The native tcsh uses different code at this point.  Cygwin shares its
code with the UWIN port.


Corinna

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