From: pmurphy@dimensional.com (Paul Murphy) Subject: .cmd files not flagged as executable on NT 19 Jan 1999 05:06:04 -0800 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Hello all, This issue is mentioned in brief on the FAQ but does not specifically address .cmd files. Actually my concern is the converse of the question: "Why do some files, which are not executables have the 'x' type." It seems that .exe files and .bat files are marked 'x', but .cmd files are not. I can understand that you really wouldn't want .cmd files to be marked executable if you were on Win95/98, since I don't think cmd.exe exists on those platforms. As a compromise, until a better solution can be approximated, I suggest that the FAQ be augmented to read something like this: Q: "Why do some files, which are not executables have the 'x' type, and some that should, don't?" A: "When working out the unix-style attribute bits on a file, the library has to fill out some information not provided by the WIN32 API. It guesses that files ending in .exe and .bat are executable, as are ones which have a "#!" as their first characters. Files that end in .cmd are not currently guessed to be executable, since this could be wrong on Windows 95/98." Thanks, Paul Murphy ----------------------------------------------- Cygnus Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Mon Jan 18 19:48:36 1999 WinNT Ver 4.0 build 1381 Service Pack 3 Path: /PROGRA~1/cygnus/CYGWIN~1/H-I586~1/bin /WINNT/system32 /WINNT /Program Files/cygnus/cygwin-b20/H-i586-cygwin32/bin /jdk1.2/bin/ /program files/util/ /program files/devstudio/sharedide/bin/ide /program files/devstudio/sharedide/bin /program files/devstudio/vc/bin SysDir: C:\WINNT\System32 WinDir: C:\WINNT MAKE_MODE = `UNIX' PWD = `/docs/html/bin' !C: = `C:\WINNT\Profiles\pmurphy.000\Desktop' COMPUTERNAME = `PMURPHY-H' COMSPEC = `C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe' HOMEDRIVE = `C:' HOMEPATH = `\' HOSTNAME = `pmurphy-h' HOSTTYPE = `i586' INCLUDE = `c:\program files\devstudio\vc\include;c:\program files\devstudio\vc\atl\include;c:\program files\devstudio\vc\mfc\include;%include%' LIB = `c:\program files\devstudio\vc\lib;c:\program files\devstudio\vc\mfc\lib;%lib%' LOGONSERVER = `\\PMURPHY-H' MACHTYPE 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HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\GNUPro\i586-cygwin32 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\GNUPro\i586-cygwin32\i586-cygwin32 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\GNUPro\i586-cygwin32\i586-cygwin32\cygwin-B20.1 (default) = `c:\program files\cygnus\cygwin-b20' HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Cygnus Cygwin B20 (default) = `C:\WINNT\IsUninst.exe -f"c:\program files\cygnus\cygwin-b20\Uninst.isu"' DisplayName = `Cygwin B20' a:\ fd N/A N/A c:\ hd NTFS 4094Mb 91% CP CS UN PA FC d:\ fd FAT 1020Mb 59% CP UN PR0N e:\ fd FAT 127Mb 100% CP UN 0206_194427 f:\ cd N/A N/A h:\ net N/A N/A i:\ net N/A N/A j:\ net N/A N/A k:\ net N/A N/A s:\ net N/A N/A C: / native text!=binary Found: C:\PROGRA~1\cygnus\CYGWIN~1\H-I586~1\bin\bash.exe Found: C:\Program Files\cygnus\cygwin-b20\H-i586-cygwin32\bin\bash.exe Warning: C:\PROGRA~1\cygnus\CYGWIN~1\H-I586~1\bin\bash.exe hides C:\Program Files\cygnus\cygwin-b20\H-i586-cygwin32\bin\bash.exe Found: 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