On 8/9/2016 9:07 AM, Marco Atzeri wrote: > On 09/08/2016 14:58, cyg Simple wrote: >> >>> So, if we actually implement PATHEXT, its usage would be limited to >>> suffixes of binary files and files starting with #!<interpreter>, or we >>> would have to use a way to start an application which doesn't work well >>> in a POSIX scenario, or we would have to search the registry for the >>> suffix linkage. Additionally to searching a variable number of files >>> for each single file access. >> >> I tried "chmod +x foo.txt; ./foo.txt" but that results in Cygwin >> assuming the text file is a script and executing each line of the file. >> If PATHEXT were used only to determine that the file should be passed to >> ShellExecute instead it might be beneficial but since I can easily just >> do "cmd /c foo.txt" then probably not so much. > > try "cygstart foo.txt" >
And then you can do: ln -s foo.txt foo cygstart foo OR you can do alias foo="cygstart foo.txt" foo -- 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
