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Re: tcsh executing .com files under Cygwin DLL 1.5.21
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 13:00:27 +0200
- Subject: Re: tcsh executing .com files under Cygwin DLL 1.5.21
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0610031228220.4698@druid.hvem.colorado.edu>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Oct 3 12:46, David Mastronarde wrote:
> When I upgraded from Cygwin DLL 1.5.19-4 to 1.5.21, tcsh started trying to
> execute files on the path with extension .com, with often fatal results.
> [...]
It's the way it is. There's special code in tcsh which is identical for
Cygwin and U/Win. It handles the .bat, .exe, and .com extensions
similar. It might be worth to remove this, but I'd have to discuss this
with the tcsh upstream maintainers.
Corinna
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