On 22/11/06, Yang ZHONG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Both .bat and .cmd are Windows official batch scripts file extention. .bat might have a little bit more meaningful name, a little bit longer history and a little bit more popularity :-) On 11/21/06, Jean-Sebastien Delfino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Pete Robbins wrote: > > On 21/11/06, Jean-Sebastien Delfino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> Our samples directory contain a mix of .bat and .cmd files: > >> > >> ./samples/CppCalculator/deployclient.bat > >> ./samples/CppCalculator/deploy.bat > >> ./samples/CppCalculator/deploywsclient.bat > >> ./samples/CppBigBank/deployclient.bat > >> ./samples/CppBigBank/deploy.bat > >> ./samples/CppBigBank/deploywsclient.bat > >> > >> ./samples/RubyBigBank/deploy.cmd > >> ./samples/RubyCalculator/deploy.cmd > >> ./samples/PythonCalculator/deploy.cmd > >> ./samples/RestCalculator/deploy.cmd > >> > >> I'd like to make this consistent, either all .bat or all .cmd. Which > one > >> do you prefer? > >> > >> -- > >> Jean-Sebastien > >> > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> > > > > Does anyone know what the difference is? > > > > I am not aware of any difference. Some posts on the Web claim that .bat > run with command.com and .cmd with cmd.exe... but I just tested and on > Windows XP SP2 both run with cmd.exe. > > We're targeting Windows rather than MS-DOS so I would suggest to go with > .cmd but since my primary platform is Linux I thought I'd let Windows > developers decide :) > > Let me know what you prefer and I'll take care of the SVN renames and > the other necessary adjustments. > > -- > Jean-Sebastien > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Yang ZHONG
We have 52 .bat files and 35 .cmd files in the cpp tree so I'd recommend changing to .bat if we must! Cheers, -- Pete
