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Re: .exe magic reloaded 2


On Sep 15 13:40, Al wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have another interesting case where .exe magic doesn't work as
> transparently as one would expect.
> 
> I have a file python2.6.exe. A script tries to find it with "ls
> python2.?". It is not found.
> 
> Here the script needs a modification to work with Cygwin, but we can't
> really say that there is a bug in the script.

True.  In theory we would have to remove .exe and .lnk suffixes from
directory listings as well, but that was never the case in Cygwin.


Corinna

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