Message-Id: <m10SIkl-000aSyC@sloep07.cs.vu.nl>
Date:     Wed, 31 Mar 99 13:01:46 MET DST
From: Michel de Ruiter  <mdruiter AT cs DOT vu DOT nl>
To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
cc: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT usa DOT net>
Subject:  Re:  Bash 2.03 update (March 19th)
Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com

In your letter dated Sun, 28 Mar 1999 15:50:35 +0200 (IST), you wrote:
> > BTW, I understand why spawnv has preference for the *.bat, but it
> > quite surprised me in Bash. If I say `autoconf' in Bash, I would like
> > Bash to run autoconf, not autoconf.bat.
> I think Bash should use the same preference as any other DJGPP program
> which calls `spawn' or `system'.

Ok. It might be that spawn's behaviour is what I expected after all.

Now that I ran Bash-2 again, I noticed what was the problem in the
first place. It may already be corrected, as I wasn't able to try the
latest beta yet.

Typing `bash filename' at the DOS prompt causes Bash to run
`filename.bat' (this is a problem it itself), interpreting it as being
a Bash-script. As Bash does not know anything about DOS' batch
language, this fails in many ways...

--
*Groeten, Michel*.      _http://www.cs.vu.nl/~mdruiter_