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Larry, et al -- ...and then Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) said... % % At 03:09 PM 6/3/2002, David T-G wrote: % > % >...and then Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) said... % >% ... % >% The email archives is the place to look and look hard for something like % > % >I did, too, but I didn't find anything that looked familiar -- and yet I % >could swear that I had just seen this go by before. % % Well, like I said, I didn't do anything more than ask for messages with % "batch" in them. Earnie's response was the fourth one based on score. Yeah; I went farther than that. % I definitely wasn't looking with something particular in mind. I just % reviewed what was returned in the order it was returned. Understood. % % >My recollection is that there's a parameter in the cygwin world where you % >can add .bat to the extensions list that the shell should automatically % >append to an unqualified name so that it knows to run .bat files just % >like .exe and .com files. I haven't found that setting, though. While % >it certainly may not exist, I can hardly believe that I dreamed it or % >that I so badly misremembered something else... % % % I can't clarify your memory for you either. I can say that I don't know You can't?!? Darn; I keep looking for someone who can help me with that ;-) % of such a facility. The closest I know of is an analogous one in DOS which % uses PATHEXT. That said, I've never had a problem with typing the full name Hmmm... That sounds familiar; maybe I have the two reversed. Time for more searching... % to the batch file (i.e. <name>.bat) at the bash (or ash for that matter) % prompt and getting the batch file to run properly. I haven't set anything in Same here; it's just nice to not have to remember to tack on the .bat if possible. % particular to get this to happen. It's just always worked for me, so long as % Cygwin thought the batch file was executable (i.e. chmod +x <name>.bat). That's something I also never had to do, but I understand that mount means I might (or, conversely, could consider a file *not* executable, which was impossible under B20, where I was last and where I still find myself thinking at times). % But, of course, creating #!.exe and adding it as the first line to the batch % file is exactly what tells Cygwin that this file should be treated as an % executable. So #!.exe is just another option if you can't get what you % want/need from chmod (like on 9x/Me systems). Since I'm on 98, that may be exactly what I need. % ... % >*definitely* news to me (and some of the followups intimated that it % >might be problematic), I wonder myself if there is a simple way to tell ... % % I'm not sure what posts you're referring to when you suggest that #!.exe % is problematic. I went back and reviewed the thread there and saw no % outstanding concerns about #!.exe. Perhaps you could qualify that statement % better. I suppose I misread Jan's post farther down in the thread, where he says that running "foo" still doesn't work. Unfortunately, the thread peters out there. % % Obviously, you're welcome to pursue any .bat file issue you have further but % I see nothing wrong with the observations and solutions posted so far. They % address the stated concern of being able to run a batch file from Cygwin % shells AFAICS. Yeah, I can keep tacking .bat on the end at the prompt and in the meantime keep scratching my head waiting to put the pieces back together again :-) % % Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com % RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com % 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office % Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX Thanks & HAND :-D -- David T-G * It's easier to fight for one's principles (play) davidtg@justpickone.org * than to live up to them. -- fortune cookie (work) davidtgwork@justpickone.org http://www.justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!
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