Re: [Oorexx-devel] Default search extensions

[Mark M. <mie...@gm...>]

On Feb 4, 2008 7:08 AM, Rick McGuire <obj...@gm...> wrote:

> ...  On Windows, the two extensions ".REX" and
> ".CMD" are checked, in that order.  This seems sort of reasonable, though
> .CMD is largely a carryover relic from the OS/2 version.  On Linux, the
> extensions checked are ".CMD" and ".cmd".  It seems reasonable to check both
> cases, but it's totally bizarre that ".cmd" was chose and not ".REX".

It is totally bizarre.  I discovered that writing some test cases and
was going to open a bug, but didn't obviously.  It is on my list of
things that need resolution though.

> I'd
> like to bring these two in line and add ".REX" and ".rex" to the list, ahead
> of the .cmd variants.  Does this sound like a reasonable thing to do?

Definitely.

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Mark Miesfeld