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> From: "Laurynas Biveinis" <lauras AT softhome DOT net>
> Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 17:52:57 +0200
> 
> > Could we please have a description of what you think you everybody
> > agrees to, before you start coding?  There were lots of opinions and
> > suggestions in this thread, and I'm not sure to what we all agreed...
> 
> I want to make run-time switch in dosexec.c between 2.03 and 2.04 behaviour
> there.

When you say 2.03 and 2.04, you mean Bash version, not DJGPP version,
right?

If so, then this doesn't tell me much, since I don't really know what
did Bash 2.03 do.

> > As an example, everybody seemed to be talking about shell scripts
> > without extensions, but no one mentioned the other extensionless case:
> > the raw COFF image.  Please note that in general we would like to
> > avoid running the raw image when there's a .exe program in the same
> > place, because the raw image is run via go32-v2.
> 
> I wanted to see how 2.03 handled all these issues.

I think all versions of Bash before 2.04 invoked the extensionless raw
COFF images in preference to .exe programs.