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Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 04:01:04 +0300
From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon AT yandex DOT ru>
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Subject: Re: PATHEXT is fundamental to Windows and Should be recognised by CYGWIN
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Greetings, Erik Soderquist!

> PATHEXT looks for *executable* files, not file association.  I warned
> previously in this thread about getting the two confused.

Your statement is confusing. If not contradictory.
PATHEXT tells the shell to consider these file extensions executable.
If you create a file association for ".sh" and add ".SH" to pathext, CMD will
happily execute it, and in the current console.


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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Wednesday, August 10, 2016 03:48:44

Sorry for my terrible english...


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