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Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 08:02:46 -0700 (PDT)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: Cygwin RCS Build Instructions (or sometimes ash does not like a.out)
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--- Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com> wrote:
> 
> ash wants files to have the executable bit set.  Cygwin fakes this by looking
> for files with specific extensions and setting the bit in that case.
> 
> '.out' is not one of the extensions.
> 

IMO, .out should be considered as "one of the extensions".  After all cmd.exe
will execute a file with a .out extension.  At least on my NT4sp4 machine,
YMMV.

Cheers,

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Earnie Boyd
mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com

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