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> So if you're going to do this crazy thing, you've got to be prepared
> to accommodate Windows's various quirks, one of which is this .com
> .exe and .lnk business.

I think that it would still be possible to have cygwin
look for foo.exe when searching for an executable and
it does not find foo.  But having the normal cygwin
executables appear without .exe seems reasonable. The
"if you don't find it without .exe, add .exe and try
again" approach would allow natural use by cygwin of
Windows executables, and of old cygwin executables.

But it seems some of us are coming around to the point
of view that we do not need the .exe magic for all
*other* file open / stat calls ...

Eliot Moss

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