What is wrong with the name excel?

[Csaba Ráduly]

Hi Gerlach,

On 17/04/2020 13:10, Gerlach van Beinum via Cygwin wrote:
> I made a program to read a csv file from Excel. I called it excel.c
> and it made an executable excel.exe
> If irun that executable with:
> ./excel.exe
> nothing happens, i.i. no output.

Try running it under gdb. You should get a better description than "no output".

> 
> If I rename it to a.exe it runs OK.
> 
> What about this name excel??

It's used by a fairly popular application published by a legacy software vendor 
headquartered in Redmond, Washington.

> 
> My Cygwin version is up-to-date.
> 

I believe it when I see it (the output of cygcheck -s -r -v, attached to the email).

Csaba
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