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Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 11:20:23 -0600
To: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: "Matt Minnis" <mminnis AT prefres DOT com>
Subject: Re: Batch files
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Yes, fred.bat or foo.bat do work now, but so should foo and fred.

Is there a way to enable this behavior?

Thanks,

Matt

At 11:14 AM 3/30/2001, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
>At 11:17 AM 3/30/2001, Matt Minnis wrote:
>
>
> >Is there a way to get Cygwin to recognize that *.bat files are 
> executeable as:
> >fred.bat & fred (without the .bat)?
>
>
>Anything's possible.  foo.bat works for me though.
>
>
>
>Larry Hall                              lhall AT rfk DOT com
>RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
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