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Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 12:39:10 +0100
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Subject: Re: 'cp' utility bug when <dest-name>.exe file exist.
From: Andy Koppe <andy DOT koppe AT gmail DOT com>
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On 9 June 2010 10:48, Julio Costa wrote:
>>>And this is where my head got reeeally spinning... can anyone, please,
>>>explain the reason to why this .exe magic exists, anyway?

As far as I understand it, the original reason for it was that Windows
9x always required it. Of course Cygwin 1.7 no longer supports 9x, so
from that perspective, it's no longer needed.


>> [Running in cmd.exe]
> The point is, that *is not* a reason, because it is easily fixed by
> "set PATHEXE=%PATHEXE%:.".

That's a nice one. I certainly didn't know about that.

Explorer still needs the .exe though. More importantly, a lot of build
scripts likely depend on the .exe being added automatically.

The frequent questions and problems around this issue do make me
wonder though whether it wouldn't indeed be better to drop the .exe
magic completely, deal with the ensuing pain, but eventually be done
with it.

Andy

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