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Re: PATHEXT is fundamental to Windows and Should be recognised by CYGWIN

From: Eliot Moss <moss at cs dot umass dot edu>
To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2016 21:59:44 -0400
Subject: Re: PATHEXT is fundamental to Windows and Should be recognised by CYGWIN
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On 8/5/2016 2:14 PM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote:

From: Erik Soderquist

... DOS did a lot of things
against already established conventions, such as using a backslash
instead of a forward slash as the directory separator, just "to be
different".


Not just to be different, but to distinguish from slashes used as
command qualifiers (a la VMS), don't you think?


Maybe ... but my first thought is that they did it to avoid
copyright lawsuits ...

Eliot Moss

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- Re: PATHEXT is fundamental to Windows and Should be recognised by CYGWIN
  - From: Erik Soderquist
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  - From: Nellis, Kenneth

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