ITP: rxvt-W

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Tue Mar 21 18:37:00 GMT 2006


On Mar 21 12:52, Charles Wilson wrote:
> I have one concern with that plan, tho: Would the transparent_exe logic
> ALSO extend to other PATHEXT extensions?  Does 'foo' conflict with
> 'foo.bat' (and foo.com, foo.vbs, foo.cmd, foo.wsh, ...) or ONLY with
> 'foo.exe'?

"foo" doesn't conflict with anything but "foo.exe" and "foo.lnk" (and,
fwiw, "foo.exe.lnk").  These two suffixes are the only suffixes which
are hidden to the user in one way or the other.

> There's one other minor issue, too: the batch file (but not the #!
> script) would be limited to 9 command-line parameters.

Really?  I think the cmd shell knows a "shift" command, too.


Corinna

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