[Bug 34730] Wine can no longer execute unix programs

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34730

--- Comment #17 from Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to comment #16)
> Well, I totally forgot about %PATHEXT% in Windows. I see, adding '.' to this
> variable makes 'ls' working too not only 'ls.'. So wine still can run linux
> programs (that's good), however current situation is not windows %PATHEXT%
> compatible at all - explicit extension typing executes linux program whether
> this extension is on %PATHEXT% or not. 
> 
> Creating shell scripts for linux program is generally a good idea but only
> for known and often used programs. Asking user to write a script for each
> new or one time used program is an evil thing. Anyway, if wine can execute
> linux scripts and programs with an extension, why it should not execute
> linux programs without extension? No standard sets that empty extension
> should be marked explicitly.

The bug is valid, as comment #8 points out. Further discussion isn't necessary.
Talking about the bug won't fix it, patches will.

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