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Re: 'cp' utility bug when <dest-name>.exe file exist.
On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 11:51:14AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 10:50:34AM -0400, Stephen Morton wrote:
>>We use a make environment that is part cygwin and part pure windows
>>executables (long story). And it all works in linux too. I suspect
>>it would break in the worst ugly ways if the .exe magic did not exist.
>
>And, it is this kind of thing that the .exe magic is trying to help. It
>wasn't implemented because of Windows 95. It is there because many UNIX
>apps expect executables to have .exe extensions.
Sorry. What I mean is that many UNIX apps expect to be able to transparently
access executables.
cgf
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