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From:	"Max Bowsher" <maxb AT ukf DOT net>
To:	"Shing-Fat Fred Ma" <fma AT doe DOT carleton DOT ca>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: No such file, but it's right there
Date:	Mon, 18 Nov 2002 00:18:00 -0000
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Shing-Fat Fred Ma <fma AT doe DOT carleton DOT ca> wrote:

> When I try to "ls" a file I know to be
> there, I'm told it isn't:

No, as you show below, ls works, less doesn't.

>      $ cd /usr/bin
>      $ ls -l ftp telnet
>
>       -rwxr-xr-x 1 unknown unknown 57344 Jan 6 2002 ftp*
>       -rwxr-xr-x 1 unknown unknown 79360 Jan 6 2002 telnet*
>
>      $ less ftp telnet
>
>       ftp: No such file or directory
>       telnet: No such file or directory
>
> I don't really want to less a binary file,
> just see whether the file's presence
> is recognized.

Well the files are, of course, ftp.exe and telnet.exe.
Cygwin's automagical .exe workarounds seems to not be working when going
through a mount where there is no underlying directory.

Max.


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