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Subject: Re: tcsh executing .com files under Cygwin DLL 1.5.21
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On Oct  3 12:46, David Mastronarde wrote:
> When I upgraded from Cygwin DLL 1.5.19-4 to 1.5.21, tcsh started trying to 
> execute files on the path with extension .com, with often fatal results.
> [...]

It's the way it is.  There's special code in tcsh which is identical for
Cygwin and U/Win.  It handles the .bat, .exe, and .com extensions
similar.  It might be worth to remove this, but I'd have to discuss this
with the tcsh upstream maintainers.


Corinna

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