>> 1.) When a file is made executable .exe is appended, but only visible >> from Windows API.
> How would this work with non-Cygwin programs? They wouldn't be handled > under > (1). Depends on how you install or mount them. But yes, as a prerequest there would be two types of filessystem handling. The "normal" windows one, always with .exe suffix stored into the filename of executables. When mounting foreign unix filesystems no .exe magic would be used at all on them. Al -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
