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Subject: RE: exe handling
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 14:10:44 +0100
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com] On
Behalf
> Of Corinna Vinschen
> Sent: 19 July 2006 13:51
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Re: exe handling
> 
> On Jul 19 13:41, Oliver Walsh wrote:
> > > From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com] On
> 
> http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR
> 
> > > The general idea for the future is to avoid having a file "foo"
and a
> > > file "foo.exe" in the same directory like pestilence.
> >
> > Ok, I can't avoid having both files in the same location but I can
just
> > call foo.exe from foo when run from cygwin.
> 
> Can't you put the unix wrapper scripts (or whatever they are) into
> another path which has precedence over the Cygwin bin path in $PATH?

Yea I could to that, but I'd rather keep the scripts and makefiles as
generic as possible. There are already enough exceptions for windows. 

Thanks,
Ollie


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