From what i've been reading, bashcompletion.exe is a Linux thing but every time I start Gimp a window shows up with a message involving bashcompletion.exe and Gmic and this is on my windows system. I won't even profess to understand what bashcompletion.exe is but should it be on a windows gimp install?

.exe files are Window's only executables.

The only way to run Window's executables in Linux is by using a Windows emulator like Wine, but who in their right mind would do that?

I do not have anything with Bash as part of the name on my whole computer and I have GIMP 2.6, 2.7, G'MIC, and MathMap installed.
So I do not think this should be on a Windows PC

And Tux posted before me
He makes sense too

I've never heard of bashcompletion.exe.
But then again I don't use Windows.
Bash is an acronym:Bourne Again SHell.
An operating system has a kernel,if you want to sent a command to the kernel you either use a graphical interface
or on a command line you type a command.
The shell then translates this to something the kernel understands (ones and zeros).
We cannot directly use ones and zeros because to us they are meaningless.
The bash shell is a rewrite of a shell made by a guy named Bourne for Unix.
If one has bashcompletion the entering of commands will go faster.
It could be that Gimp or another Linux program ported to Windows uses command line and bash.
Gerard.

i suppose that come with gmic
but is in the gmic command line should not be in the plugin, and i doubt that may be for linux (not sure here)

I don't need to run Windows EXEs in linux, it's a windows system, I just wasn't sure what bashcomplete is for, or if i had installed gmic wrong, to put it another way.

Sorry, your question seemed to ask (or suggest) this was a Linux thing.

bashcompletion.exe or any .exe, for that matter, is not a Linux thing. It's a Windows only thing.

My point is that I think it unwise to ruin a nice secure Linux box by running a Windows emulator like Wine. Althiough, many people do just that, because they want to run Window's exe's.

well if was a exe in maybe you dl the wrong pack

and for what is i told you ,a component of gmic command line (in the windows version )

I'm not proficient with Linux yet. I thought all EXEs were Windows but wasn't sure. Thanks, PC, that's what I was wondering.
Sorry if I'm not making sense. I know it probably sounds silly but one of my rats had a stroke and we've had to hold her almost 24 hours a day for the last few days and I could use sleep. Even now I have to hold her in one hand and type with the other. My wife and I have been taking turns.

This was a debugger added to GMIC and can be left out of the plug-in folder.

I hope everything turns out well, for you and your Rat

*cough* only crazy people who can't find alternates for Linux *cough* (raises hand slightly)

Sorry to hear about your rat, Gms9810.

I have 22 of them, seems like all this for one is silly but all of them are unique, thanks

Well, you could do as I do and run Windows from another drive/partition or VM.

I guess wine is just pet peeve of mine.

I believe that the Mono Project makes use of files with .exe extensions for its .NET executables (they are purportedly supposed to work on both Windows and mono).

I have Virtualbox on the office computer, but all my personal computers, its dual boot. Windows is a pet peeve of mine.

Saul, I've never been able to get Mono to work correctly, but then again, I'm not all that fluent on its use to begin with.

I've never tried to get Mono to work. In my opinion, if you want your program to work on different platforms then the best solution is to share your source code (like the GIMP project does) and let it be adapted. Introducing the complexity of a virtual machine such as Mono or Java generally causes more problems than I care to deal with, and rarely results in full cross-platform compatibility anyway.

Yes, but the mono runtime interpreter is required to execute Microsoft's .net junk on the Linux platform. .exe's can't run "natively" on Linux without some level of emulation, even if you register .exe as a "non-native" Linux binary.

I have one computer with Windows and right beside it one with Linux on it because i wanted to learn Linux. I have Wine on my linux machine but only as a learning tool. I have Gimp on both machines, both have the same scripts and plugins. I haven't been asking too many questions in the Mint forums because I prefer to ask 'friends' here. I've learned a lot about Linux so far but i have a lot more to go. I've always taught myself new things and only ask if I can't find the answer. I've been getting lazy lately and asking questions before I've researched it completely. Maybe I should stop the questions and find the answers for myself like I usually do.

Hi Gms9810,
I read through this whole post but I don't see a reason to keep you from asking questions.
Could it have been the remarks about Wine?
That's their opinion,I have Wine too (and to start it q4wine).
It allows me to use cd's that come with hardware like printers,monitors etc.
A while back there has been a post about "sculpturegenerator.exe".
I use it to make all kinds of things,without wine impossible.
Pay a visit to this site: http://forums.gentoo.org/
The atmosphere there is better than any other Linux forum.
Gerard.