From: Greywolf <greywolf@starwolf.com>
To: moss@cs.umass.edu, Erik Soderquist <ErikSoderquist@gmail.com>,
cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: What is wrong with the name excel?
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 19:33:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <02a96d31-3065-4629-653d-a0bdd0def907@starwolf.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <80877666-85aa-0b3d-8efe-bd7e0294c030@cs.umass.edu>
On 4/17/2020 11:01, Eliot Moss wrote:
> On 4/17/2020 1:24 PM, Erik Soderquist via Cygwin wrote:
> What seems a little odd to me is this. If I had invoked via:
>
> excel.exe
>
> I would not be surprised the MS Excel would launch, because it is probably
> earlier in the path. But the OP said he typed:
>
> ./excel.exe
>
> So I am surprised, given the explicit path. Which leads me to a background
> wondering of whether ./excel.exe has execute permission set. If not maybe
> the search would continue, trying to find something on the path that could
> be executed? That would surprise me a little, but I'd have to go read the
> fine print on bash, etc.
If it didn't find it in the path at all, one expects (in a reasonable
environment) that the complaint "Command not found" would issue.
>
> Regards - Eliot Moss
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-18 2:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-17 11:10 Gerlach van Beinum
2020-04-17 17:24 ` Erik Soderquist
2020-04-17 18:01 ` Eliot Moss
2020-04-17 18:17 ` Tony Richardson
2020-04-17 18:26 ` Eliot Moss
2020-04-17 19:00 ` Fergus Daly
2020-04-18 2:33 ` Greywolf [this message]
2020-04-17 17:33 ` Csaba Ráduly
2020-04-18 0:03 ` Andrey Repin
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