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 -- 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