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Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 19:13:25 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: 2001-04-16 DLL not running .bat and .cmd files with cmd.exe
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In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.2.20010417143854.02179ab8@pop.ma.ultranet.com>; from lhall@rfk.com on Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 02:39:49PM -0400

On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 02:39:49PM -0400, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
>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. 

I did say this but I thought I'd fixed it in recent snapshots.

I have just checked in a fix to rectify the problem again.  It will be
in tonight's snapshot.

cgf

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