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From: mh AT mike DOT franken DOT de (Michael Hirmke)
Subject: Re: B19: [.exe is missing and B19.1 dll update is corrupt
24 Mar 1998 10:19:48 -0800 :
Message-ID: <6qDI8JrppfB.cygnus.gnu-win32@mike.franken.de>
References: <01BD5282 DOT 90BD19A0 AT pc899 DOT cpgen DOT cpg DOT com DOT au>
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To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

Hi Simon,

>
>
>The utility [.exe seems to be missing from this release which breaks most of
>the scripts that rely on it rather than test.exe. The utility was in B18.

Just "ln -s test.exe [.exe", if you need it.
But it is not necessary for bash, only for ash, which is sh.exe in B19.
In bash you get

 $ type [
[ is a shell builtin

>
>Also the b19.1  Cygwinb19.dll.gz  seems to be corrupt at all the servers that
>I have tried to download from. I get the message that there is garbbage
>appended to the file. 

Try to get it from ftp.franken.de. The exact path is
/pub/win32/develop/gnuwin32/mirrors/cygnus/gnu-win32-b19/b19.1-update/

>
>Simon Azriel

Bye.
Michael.
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