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Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 10:50:55 -0500
From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
To: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Cc: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: Re: No such file or directory
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In-Reply-To: <20000327135531.13723.qmail@web109.yahoomail.com>; from earnie_boyd@yahoo.com on Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 05:55:31AM -0800

On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 05:55:31AM -0800, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>--- 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?

Then foo wins, of course.  

>What is going to change install or Cygwin1.dll?

When I refer to cygwin, I mean the DLL.

>P.S.: What is cygwin AT hotpop DOT com?

No idea.

cgf

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