No such file or directory

Earnie Boyd earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
Mon Mar 27 05:56:00 GMT 2000


--- Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 10:40:13PM -0500, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
> wrote:
> >Looks to me like your big problem is the install program which assumes the 
> >UNIX convention of executables without extensions (.exe).  It looks for
> >remind and not remind.exe, which is what exists.
> 
> I wonder if it would really be a big deal if cygwin, by default, found a
> file "foo.exe" if there was no existing file "foo".
> 
> We keep running into this problem and I wonder if implementing this in
> cygwin would solve more problems than it causes.
> 

What a concept Chris! ;^)  It sounds like an awesome task.  What happens if foo
and foo.exe exists?  What is going to change install or Cygwin1.dll?

Regards,
Earnie
P.S.: What is cygwin@hotpop.com?



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