Re: Running Windows scripts & PATHEXT

2004-08-30 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 04:29:37PM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Ugh. I fully agree with CGF - the "hide the extension" business is ugly, counterproductive, and should not be used. Well Cygwin's already doing it WRT things like .exe and .lnk... :-)

Re: Running Windows scripts & PATHEXT

2004-08-30 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 04:29:37PM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: >Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > >>Ugh. I fully agree with CGF - the "hide the extension" business is >>ugly, counterproductive, and should not be used. > >Well Cygwin's already doing it WRT things like .exe and .lnk... :-) A necessary ev

Re: Running Windows scripts & PATHEXT

2004-08-30 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Ugh. I fully agree with CGF - the "hide the extension" business is ugly, counterproductive, and should not be used. Well Cygwin's already doing it WRT things like .exe and .lnk... :-) Having said that, is there any reason why $ ln -s myscript.pl myscript && chmod a+x myscr