Michael, You need to configure your email client to wrap your text at no more than 78 characters, 72 would be even better. It helps quoting what you write better.
You also need to stop top posting or remove the trailing mail from the reply if quoting that particular mail isn't necessary. Cygwin Community, This conversation has driven me bonkers. Cygwin is a tool for windows first and foremost. It was designed to help make life for those who support both UNIX and Windows servers a little easier by not having to convert scripts and utilities. Cygwin is now trying to be something more by becoming even more UNIX like. Some of the changes that have occurred are presenting havoc on those of us who have used a mix of applications, some Cygwin runtime and some Windows runtime. This makes it difficult as is evidenced by the complaints in this list about ACL issues. With the PATHEXT debate Michael (and others before him) is stating that it would be nice if Cygwin, like its competitors, could use the PATHEXT variable to determine if the file can be executed by extension. The naysayers are stating that it isn't POSIX or UNIX behavior; I agree with that statement. I don't agree that Cygwin cannot use this variable to determine if a file is executable. Cygwin doesn't have to determine the program to use, the Windows API has the smarts for that. All Cygwin needs to do is to pass the file path to the API to execute the file. Cygwin even now makes an exception for files ending in .exe; see the output of 'ls -l /bin/ls' versus 'ls -l /bin/ls*'. I've stated this to cast my support for using PATHEXT even if it is a filtered option via the CYGWIN variable. Michael are you willing to provide code? -- cyg Simple -- 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
