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Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 20:13:08 -0800 (PST)
From: Rick Rankin <rick_rankin AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: No such file or directory
To: Cygwin <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
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I don't know. I think you'd want to consider it very carefully. I'd be pretty
annoyed if I typed 'cat foo', thinking foo contained a few lines of text, and
cat instead opened foo.exe because I was in the wrong directory or something
like that.

It seems like most of the problems you refered to are related to make and/or
install. Wouldn't it be better to "fix" these programs than to build something
like this into the core?

Rick
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--- Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com> wrote:
> I wonder if it would really be a big deal if cygwin, by default, found a
> file "foo.exe" if there was no existing file "foo".
> 
> We keep running into this problem and I wonder if implementing this in
> cygwin would solve more problems than it causes.
> 
> cgf


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