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From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
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On Jul 19 13:41, Oliver Walsh wrote:
> > From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On

http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR

> > The general idea for the future is to avoid having a file "foo" and a
> > file "foo.exe" in the same directory like pestilence.
> 
> Ok, I can't avoid having both files in the same location but I can just
> call foo.exe from foo when run from cygwin.

Can't you put the unix wrapper scripts (or whatever they are) into
another path which has precedence over the Cygwin bin path in $PATH?


Corinna

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