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From: Andrew DeFaria <Andrew AT DeFaria DOT com>
Subject: Re: Running Windows scripts & PATHEXT
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 18:21:46 -0700
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Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 04:29:37PM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>
>> Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>>
>>> Ugh. I fully agree with CGF - the "hide the extension" business is 
>>> ugly, counterproductive, and should not be used.
>>
>> Well Cygwin's already doing it WRT things like .exe and .lnk... :-)
>
> A necessary evil does not usually evolve into a nifty new feature.

Guess I was just looking to expand on the necessity of the evil! :-(


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