X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com
X-Original-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 sourceware.org 7A526385B835
Authentication-Results: sourceware.org;
 dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=starwolf.com
Authentication-Results: sourceware.org;
 spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=greywolf AT starwolf DOT com
Subject: Re: What is wrong with the name excel?
To: moss AT cs DOT umass DOT edu, Erik Soderquist <ErikSoderquist AT gmail DOT com>,
        cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
References: <CAPOO0+Mm0Fe+7MGT-05_=gCbOKQn-XOhmqHYN96K6xiS_Hj6BQ AT mail DOT gmail DOT com>
 <CACoZoo0=QMO-YxuHF4kiO59vR1i=zv=9hyARqemFEfaw8oARdg AT mail DOT gmail DOT com>
 <80877666-85aa-0b3d-8efe-bd7e0294c030 AT cs DOT umass DOT edu>
From: Greywolf <greywolf AT starwolf DOT com>
Message-ID: <02a96d31-3065-4629-653d-a0bdd0def907@starwolf.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 19:33:08 -0700
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101
 Thunderbird/68.7.0
MIME-Version: 1.0
In-Reply-To: <80877666-85aa-0b3d-8efe-bd7e0294c030@cs.umass.edu>
Content-Language: en-US
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, BODY_8BITS,
 KAM_DMARC_STATUS, SPF_HELO_NONE,
 SPF_PASS autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on
 server2.sourceware.org
X-BeenThere: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29
Precedence: list
List-Id: General Cygwin discussions and problem reports <cygwin.cygwin.com>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://cygwin.com/mailman/options/cygwin>,
 <mailto:cygwin-request AT cygwin DOT com?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-request AT cygwin DOT com?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://cygwin.com/mailman/listinfo/cygwin>,
 <mailto:cygwin-request AT cygwin DOT com?subject=subscribe>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Errors-To: cygwin-bounces AT cygwin DOT com
Sender: "Cygwin" <cygwin-bounces AT cygwin DOT com>
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-MIME-Autoconverted: from base64 to 8bit by delorie.com id 03I2XjWJ011987

On 4/17/2020 11:01, Eliot Moss wrote:
> On 4/17/2020 1:24 PM, Erik Soderquist via Cygwin wrote:
> What seems a little odd to me is this.  If I had invoked via:
> 
>     excel.exe
> 
> I would not be surprised the MS Excel would launch, because it is probably
> earlier in the path.  But the OP said he typed:
> 
>     ./excel.exe
> 
> So I am surprised, given the explicit path.  Which leads me to a background
> wondering of whether ./excel.exe has execute permission set.  If not maybe
> the search would continue, trying to find something on the path that could
> be executed?  That would surprise me a little, but I'd have to go read the
> fine print on bash, etc.

If it didn't find it in the path at all, one expects (in a reasonable
environment) that the complaint "Command not found" would issue.

> 
> Regards - Eliot Moss
> -- 
> Problem reports:      https://cygwin.com/problems.html
> FAQ:                  https://cygwin.com/faq/
> Documentation:        https://cygwin.com/docs.html
> Unsubscribe info:     https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

--
Problem reports:      https://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ:                  https://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation:        https://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info:     https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple