From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Dr Francis J. Wright" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [F.J.Wright@qmul.ac.uk: rcs2log] Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 17:10:07 -0000 Organization: Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary, University of London Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <00e701c27f6e$1a25f320$3a50258a@maths.qmul.ac.uk> References: <20021029082806.A079.LEKTU@terra.es> <001801c27f35$174ea720$3a50258a@maths.qmul.ac.uk> <20021029112745.A09D.LEKTU@terra.es> <200210291447.g9TElaS15818@rum.cs.yale.edu> <00c501c27f69$64158220$3a50258a@maths.qmul.ac.uk> <200210291640.g9TGeE917091@rum.cs.yale.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035911900 12654 80.91.224.249 (29 Oct 2002 17:18:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 17:18:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Juanma Barranquero" , "Eli Zaretskii" , Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 186a0P-0003Hw-00 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 18:18:17 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 186a57-0001ol-00 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 18:23:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 186Zxq-0000jU-00; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:15:38 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 186ZwY-00008Y-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:14:18 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 186ZwS-0008Qr-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:14:17 -0500 Original-Received: from zeta.qmw.ac.uk ([138.37.6.6]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 186Zsp-0006nM-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:10:27 -0500 Original-Received: from dirac.maths.qmw.ac.uk ([138.37.80.10] ident=root) by zeta.qmw.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.32 #1) id 186Zsj-0001px-00; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 17:10:21 +0000 Original-Received: from centaur (centaur.maths.qmw.ac.uk [138.37.80.58]) by dirac.maths.qmw.ac.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3/Maths Hub 3.0) with SMTP id RAA29139; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 17:10:16 GMT Original-To: "Stefan Monnier" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:8917 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:8917 From: "Stefan Monnier" To: "Dr Francis J. Wright" Cc: "Stefan Monnier" ; "Juanma Barranquero" ; "Eli Zaretskii" ; Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 4:40 PM Subject: Re: [F.J.Wright@qmul.ac.uk: rcs2log] > > Why do you want to rename rcs2log to rcs2log.sh? That seems to me to make > > the Windows installation more non-standard than necessary. > > I just assumed that if rcs2log stays as it is, it might be run > instead of rcs2log.bat. Whereas adding a .sh makes sure it won't > be considered as an executable, so rcs2log.bat will be run instead. > I agree that if it's not necessary, there's no point in making that > change. At first, I had exactly the same thought. But a file with no extension is never executable under Windows (as far as I am aware) and experiment confirmed that it was not necessary to rename rcs2log. Francis