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Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 05:55:31 -0800 (PST)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Reply-To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com
Subject: Re: No such file or directory
To: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>,
        "cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com" <cygwin AT hotpop DOT com>
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--- Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 10:40:13PM -0500, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
> wrote:
> >Looks to me like your big problem is the install program which assumes the 
> >UNIX convention of executables without extensions (.exe).  It looks for
> >remind and not remind.exe, which is what exists.
> 
> 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.
> 

What a concept Chris! ;^)  It sounds like an awesome task.  What happens if foo
and foo.exe exists?  What is going to change install or Cygwin1.dll?

Regards,
Earnie
P.S.: What is cygwin AT hotpop DOT com?



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