From: Dave Burt <dave@...>
Date: 2005-09-14T06:36:33+09:00
Subject: Re: find executables on windows

> since, afaik, PATHEXT does not imply some sort of ordering or precedecne.
> seem right?

The order _is_ important. With PATHEXT=.com;.exe;.bat..., foo.com will be 
preferred to foo.exe, which in turn will be preferred to foo.bat, etc.

Loop through PATH first (prepend "."), PATHEXT second, both in order.

Cheers,
Dave