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Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 09:32:07 -0400
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Status on issue with PATH ignoring scripts with same name as exes in 
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Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 
> On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 05:17:47PM -0700, Karr, David wrote:
> >I haven't reexamined this issue in several days.  I have "wrapper" scripts
> >with the same name as exes later in the path.  This worked fine in 1.1.8,
> >but now that I'm trying to use 1.3.1, it doesn't work anymore.  When the
> >shell does a PATH search, it ignores the script and just uses the exe.  I'm
> >just looking for some information on this.  I can downgrade my cygwin1.dll
> >to 1.1.8 for now.
> 
> Corinna's recent bash upgrade may fix this.
> 

Not a SBCIH.  See my previous explanation.

$ bash --version
GNU bash, version 2.04.7(2)-release (i686-pc-cygwin)
Copyright 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Earnie.

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