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Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 16:09:44 -0700
From: nasser abbasi <nabbasi AT pacbell DOT net>
Subject: Re: Problems with path resolution
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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----- Original Message ----- 
 > >I say 
> >
> >ls -l  /cygdrive/f/foo
> >
> >and it lists it.
> >
> >I say
> >
> >file /cygdrive/f/foo
> >
> >and I get an error 'No such file or directory'
> >
> >foo is some binary file.
>
 

> 
> So, the short answer is 'always add the .exe extension'.
> 

Yup, that was it.  thanks. 'ls' and 'which' for example will find the file without adding '.exe', but the 'file' 
and 'nm' and few other commands will not. 

Not consistant.

A very small price to pay for the benifit of using Unix under windows I guess :)

Nasser


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