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From: Andrew DeFaria <ADeFaria AT Salira DOT com>
Subject: Re: Problems with .exe files
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 19:02:18 -0700
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Kris Thielemans wrote:

>Hi
>
>Since upgrading cygwin a few days ago, I can no longer cp .exe files if I don't use the .exe suffix. I can reproduce this as follows:
>
>$ mkdir a
>$ touch t.exe
>$ cp t a
>cp: `t' and `a/t' are the same file
>$ cp t somenonexistingfilename
>cp: 't' and 'somenonexistingfilename' are the same file
>
>I also have a problem with rm (and maybe others)
>
>$ rm t
>rm: cannot unlink `t': No such file or directory
>
>
>Note that  as soon as I add the .exe suffix, everthing works fine
>$ cp t.exe a
>
Why would you think that you can cp t as just "t" but you'd have to 
touch "t.exe"? The real name of the the file is t.exe, for touch, cp, 
rm, etc. The only time that just "t" suffices is for exec.

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