Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com X-Apparently-From: Message-ID: <3A74C6F8.C4E5842A@yahoo.com> Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 20:27:20 -0500 From: Earnie Boyd Reply-To: cygwin X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.171 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chuck.Irvine@mail.sprint.com CC: cygwin@cygwin.com, ntemacs-users@cs.washington.edu Subject: Re: awk permissions related problem - manual-entry --> awk: permission denied References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Chuck.Irvine@mail.sprint.com wrote: > Hi Earnie, > > Deleting and re-creating the link resulted in the same problem. > > The other approach, if I understood correctly, resulted in a different > problem. I deleted the awk link and created a script named awk with the > contents: > > ---------------------------------- > #!/bin/sh > gawk $* > ----------------------------------- No, this isn't what I was thinking, but never mind. I just noticed we're talking about ntemacs. Non-Cygwin programs aren't going to understand symbollic links. Do rm awk.exe cp gawk.exe awk.exe HTH, Earnie. P.S.: In your script you should have used $@ instead of $*. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple