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Re: 'cp' utility bug when <dest-name>.exe file exist.


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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