Why can't run.exe execute a shebang script directly?

[Warren Young]

On Oct 24, 2014, at 7:37 AM, Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru> wrote:

> run.exe is designed to start Windows
> applications (or associations).

…or associations?

Are you confusing run.exe with cygstart.exe?

$ touch foo.txt
$ run foo.txt
run FATAL: Could not start C:\cygwin64\home\Warren\foo.txt
$ cygstart foo.txt      # Notepad opens, as expected
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