Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Kris Thielemans" To: "Kris Thielemans" , Cc: "Gnuwin" Subject: RE: Re: Problems with .exe files Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:31:14 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 In-Reply-To: oops. that went off too fast. ignore previous email. sorry Hi Andrew > Why would you think that you can cp t as just "t" but you'd > have to touch "t.exe"? > The real name of the file is t.exe, for touch, cp, rm, etc. The > only time that just "t" suffices is for exec. > Because it used to work on older cygwin. I suspect exactly to get Makefile and other automated processes tow rok, and I quite like it. For example on an older cygwin (1.3.22-1) touch t.exe cp t a ls a -> says a exists ls a* -> says a.exe exists However, I now notice that rm t doesn't work on that version as well, so that's not new behaviour. Kris -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/