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From: Mark Molloy <MarkMolloy AT DirecWay DOT COM>
Subject:  Re: $PATHEXT not sufficient to run script from BASH without specifying extension on Windows XP?
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 13:14:47 +0000 (UTC)
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SOLUTION: It has been kindly brought to my attention by two people that 
$PATHEXT is a Windows-only phenomena, and also that cygwin's bash doesn't
support it.  I was fooling myself because I used to use the MKS Toolkit
(at a previous job), and their Korn shell does support PATHEXT.  

Thanks!


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