Re: Managed mounts and .exe files (Was Re: cp, install, and the .exe extension)

2004-02-23 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 21 23:07, Robert R Schneck wrote: Igor Pechtchanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FWIW, WinNT/2k/XP allow executables to not have a .exe extension. I wasn't aware of it, and haven't been able to figure it out in a couple of minutes of playing around and Googling. How? On NT, the

Re: cp, install, and the .exe extension

2004-02-21 Thread Robert R Schneck-McConnell
On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, Larry Hall wrote: [on changing the error message when cp can stat but not open a file due to .exe handling] How about a patch instead of a request? ;-) Okay, attached. I've also attached a textutils patch to enact my earlier request that cat foo create foo in the whatever

Managed mounts and .exe files (Was Re: cp, install, and the .exe extension)

2004-02-21 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sat, 21 Feb 2004, Robert R Schneck-McConnell wrote: [snip] Hey, it might be interesting for managed mounts *really* to identify the filenames foo and foo.exe. (Maybe they already do?) Robert Huh? What do you mean by identify here? If you mean equate, this most likely won't happen. If

Re: Managed mounts and .exe files (Was Re: cp, install, and the .exe extension)

2004-02-21 Thread Robert R Schneck
Igor Pechtchanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 21 Feb 2004, Robert R Schneck-McConnell wrote: Hey, it might be interesting for managed mounts *really* to identify the filenames foo and foo.exe. (Maybe they already do?) Huh? What do you mean by identify here? If you mean equate, this

cp, install, and the .exe extension

2004-02-19 Thread Robert R Schneck
This is a bug in the fileutils packaging (I think). Recently I noticed that install has special handling for the .exe extension, and cp does not. In the fileutils source tarball I notice there are three files: copy.c copy.c.cgf copy.c.orig If I replace copy.c with either of the other two

Re: cp, install, and the .exe extension

2004-02-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 10:09:55PM +, Robert R Schneck wrote: This is a bug in the fileutils packaging (I think). Recently I noticed that install has special handling for the .exe extension, and cp does not. In the fileutils source tarball I notice there are three files: copy.c