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From: Helmut Karlowski <helmut DOT karlowski AT ish DOT de>
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Subject: Re: PATHEXT is fundamental to Windows and Should be recognised by CYGWIN
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> file.  I'm not satisfied that we should continue with the .exe
> artificial symlink for the same reasons we shouldn't use PATHEXT.
> Because of the amount of time to port scripts and software to use the
> .exe suffix for executable files it should be an optional configuration
> that is on by default with a scheduled deadline (two or three years) to
> make it off by default.

Basically I'd agree. In this case any cygwin-prg that should be 
executable by windows would need a symlink to the .exe-version.

Or hook into windows' findfirst/findnext ;)
Would PATHEXT=%PATHEXT%;. be a good idea?

-Helmut


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