No such file, but it's right there

[Shing-Fat Fred Ma]

 >Well the files are, of course, ftp.exe and telnet.exe.
 >Cygwin's automagical .exe workarounds seems to not be working when going
 >through a mount where there is no underlying directory.
 >
 >Max.
 >

 > Cygwin follows the Windows convention of using file file name suffix
 > ".exe" for its binary executable files. While Cygwin will locate and
 > execute files files given only the base name (sans suffix), other uses
 > ("cat," "less," or more apropos "nm," "size" or "file") demand the
 > full file name, including the ".exe" suffix.
 >
 > Randall Schulz
 > Mountain View, CA USA


Thanks.

Fred

-- 
Fred Ma, fma@doe.carleton.ca
Carleton University, Dept. of Electronics
1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario
Canada, K1S 5B6





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