Ethereal-dev: RE: [Ethereal-dev] config.nmake and POD2MAN

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From: Richard Urwin <RUrwin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 09:10:37 -0000
> nmake/Windows will never recognise #!, and Windows won't execute
> a file without a known extension anyway, I believe.

When told to execute "pod2man", windows will look for
   pod2man.bat
   pod2man.cmd
   pod2man.com
   pod2man.exe
not necessarily in that order, anywhere on the PATH. It will not consider a
file with any other (or no) extension.

-- 
Richard Urwin, Software Design Engineer
Schenck Test Automation
Braemar Court, 1311b Melton Road, Syston, UK.
rurwin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx