From: Kevin M. <kev...@us...> - 2004-10-25 16:39:18
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well, you can kind of work around this by doing "start abc.bat" or "start abc" and the MSYS sh will execute the .bat file...not as convenient as being able to fire it off directly, but works good enough for me Kevin -- Lennart Borgman wrote: > If I enter the name of a .bat-file from the MSYS sh prompt it is handles as > if it was a sh script. That is not very reasonable. > > Would it not be good if MSYS sh handled the list of extension in the PATHEXT > variable correctly? (PATHEXT is by default something like > PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD) > > This would mean for example that if I had a bat file named MY-CMD-FILE.CMD > and entered MY-CMD-FILE then sh would start cmd.exe to run MY-CMD-FILE.CMD. > > I do believe that such a change would make it much easier for someone used > to the MS Windows shell (cmd.exe) to switch to using MSYS sh. > > Beside this there is currently an issue with the build script of Emacs where > a .bat-file is called for the NT build. This fails with MSYS sh but works > correctly with Cygwin sh. > > I would prefer to use MSYS here if it is possible (because it is much > smaller and I do not need the other functionality of Cygwin). I do however > believe that many people use Cygwin instead because of issues like this. > > Kind regards, > Lennart > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal > Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us > Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more > http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl > _______________________________________________ > Mingw-msys mailing list > Min...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-msys > > |