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Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 15:34:31 -0700 (PDT)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: Link "bash" to "ksh" to be more "portable"?
To: "David M. Karr" <dkarr AT tcsi DOT com>, cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
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--- "David M. Karr" <dkarr AT tcsi DOT com> wrote:
> 
> I'm aware of the recently mentioned incantation to run a ".bat" file
> from Cygwin.  I would guess that a very simple "cygrunbat" script
> could encapsulate this.
> 

Create a noop executable named #!.exe and put it in the /bin directory.  Then
in the foo.bat file put something like `#! c:/winnt/system32/cmd /c' as the
first line of the file.  The file still has to be named foo.bat so that cmd
recognizes it as an executable file.

Cheers,

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