Greetings, Hans-Bernhard Bröker! > Am 10.08.2016 um 03:01 schrieb Andrey Repin:
>> PATHEXT tells the shell to consider these file extensions executable. Erik: > PATHEXT is very simply a list of extensions CMD.EXE will automatically > append to the given filename when searching the PATH for a command to > execute. Once a filename+extension is found, CMD.EXE still needs to > know what to do with the given file to be able to execute it. Hans: > No. That's what file associations do. cygstart will apply those where > needed, so let's consider that aspect of the case closed, shall we? > PATHEXT has just _one_ job, in those few tools that even use it: it > saves one the burden of referring to a file by its actual name. It's > what makes a given command of just Yes, sorry. I was slightly confused myself. I rechecked my facts afterward, and, indeed, cmd was successful in executing a script through file association, given the name including extension, even though I explicitly removed the extension from PATHEXT and respawned the shell to be absolutely sure. The point about <Tab>'ing of course makes PATHEXT less and less appealing in its native form. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Thursday, August 11, 2016 00:01:14 Sorry for my terrible english...
