Cygwin 1.0: Error when launching MSDOS bat file from bash on Windows 2000

[Chris Faylor]

On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 03:00:02PM +0200, Berche, Guillaume wrote:
>>I'm talking about path translation and you're quoting "File
>>permissions".  I don't understand.
>
>Well, I would think that if cygwin tags a file as executable, then it
>would also be able to translate its path to execute appropriately.  In
>the same way than when a file starts with "#! /bin/perl" cygwin would
>mark the file as executable and invoke /bin/perl to "translate" the
>path, I would think that cygwin would mark ".bat" files as executable
>and invoke the MSDOS shell to execute them (i.e.  "translate" their
>path).
>
>Am I making false assumptions here?

And, if cygwin invokes the MSDOS shell using this path:

command.com /foo/bar/blaz/blat.bat

what kind of behavior would you predict?

cgf

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