Re: .com & other executable filename extensions

On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Lee D. Rothstein wrote: > Anybody know why under both "cygwin.bat" & 'cmd.exe', I must explicitly > type the '.com' extension in order to get a '.com' file to execute. > > I've tried adding the following line to > 'cygwin.bat': > > set PATHEXT=%PATHEXT%;.sf;.ksf;.cmd;.com;.e

.com & other executable filename extensions

Anybody know why under both "cygwin.bat" & 'cmd.exe', I must explicitly type the '.com' extension in order to get a '.com' file to execute. I've tried adding the following line to 'cygwin.bat': set PATHEXT=%PATHEXT%;.sf;.ksf;.cmd;.com;.exe;.bat;.awk;.pl;.py No help. If this is covered anyw