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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:19:54 +0400
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Greetings, Julio Costa!

>>>>>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.
>>

> That's how I see it too.

WinAPI CreateProcess(Ex) were never required any specific extension.
To the latest extent of it, extensions is ONLY, SOLELY a shell issue.


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 Andrey Repin (anrdaemon AT freemail DOT ru) 10.06.2010, <14:18>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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