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Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 17:27:25 -0600
From: John A Meinel <john@arbash-meinel.com>
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To: Robert Collins <rbcollins@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla
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Cc: Arch Users <gnu-arch-users@gnu.org>,
        Erik de Castro Lopo <erikd-tla@mega-nerd.com>,
        Adrian Irving-Beer <wisq-archlist@wisq.net>
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Robert Collins wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 17:58 -0500, Adrian Irving-Beer wrote:
> 
>>On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 09:22:57AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
>>
>>
>>>It has an X bit. And the system can run any arbitrarily named file.
>>
>>So are executables given an .exe extension so you can run them
>>outside Cygwin? 
> 
> 
> Yes, and for consistency : cygwin doesn't try to make windows into unix,
> just to bring unix tools and capabilities to windows.
> 
> 
>> Or is this a historical Win95 issue (which didn't
>>have ACLs, IIRC)?
> 
> 
> Right, FAT has no acls. Indeed, win95 doesn't even have an isolated
> kernel.
> 
> Rob
> 

Actually, it is also nice that cmd.exe has ls.exe available (if you put 
it in your path). It also means that my windows Python program (not 
cygwin) can still access gpg.exe if it wants. Etc. It lets non cygwin 
tools still use the cygwin tools (as long as they are careful about 
paths, etc). I actually have my editor setup (windows prog) to run 
pdflatex, and then run acrobat reader to display the results. Without 
the .exe suffixes there wouldn't be any interoperability.

John
=:->


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