On Mar 21 12:52, Charles Wilson wrote: > I have one concern with that plan, tho: Would the transparent_exe logic > ALSO extend to other PATHEXT extensions? Does 'foo' conflict with > 'foo.bat' (and foo.com, foo.vbs, foo.cmd, foo.wsh, ...) or ONLY with > 'foo.exe'?
"foo" doesn't conflict with anything but "foo.exe" and "foo.lnk" (and, fwiw, "foo.exe.lnk"). These two suffixes are the only suffixes which are hidden to the user in one way or the other. > There's one other minor issue, too: the batch file (but not the #! > script) would be limited to 9 command-line parameters. Really? I think the cmd shell knows a "shift" command, too. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
