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Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 14:39:49 -0400
To: Troy Noble <troy DOT noble AT channelpoint DOT com>,
        "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: 2001-04-16 DLL not running .bat and .cmd files with cmd.exe
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At 12:43 PM 4/17/2001, Troy Noble wrote:
>I installed the 2001-04-16 snapshot DLL, and discovered that
>now when I type:
>
>$ myscript.bat
>
>or
>
>$ myscript.cmd
>
>at a bash prompt, that cmd.exe does not get invoked by
>default.  And of course bash gets confused since it
>doesn't know what @echo off means ;->
>
>Is this expected behavior, or is this broken?
>
>of course, I can always type "cmd.exe /c myscript.bat" and
>that works as expected.
>
>I did not re-install any other packages other than just updating
>the DLL.
>
>Thanks, Troy



Check the mail archives on this.  I believe that Chris Faylor said that 
myscript.bat used to work and is broken now for some reason. 



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