Subject: Re: Question about Running GNU Utilities on Windows XP
From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <[email-masked]>
To: Yu Wang <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 11:42:15 +0200

Hallo Yu,

Am Samstag, 5. Oktober 2002 um 21:53 schriebst du:

> Hi,

> We are running into a problem using the GNU utilities,
> (specifically TAIL.EXE) on Windows XP when we run them
> against names that are not in the 8.3 format.

> For example:
> The command: tail paratestdatalog.out
>   produces a 'No file or directory' error

> The command: tail paratestdatalog.gold
>      produces a 'No file or directory' error 

> The command: tail parate~1.gold 
>  produces a 'No file or directory' error

> The command: tail parate~1.out 
>   works

> Is there is an update or do we need to recompile or
> something?

Check your PATH settings, probably you're not using Cygwin's
/usr/bin/tail.exe

$ tail CPANTEST.RPT
    ld='ld2', ldflags =' -s -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /usr/lib /lib
    libs=-lgdbm -lcrypt -lutil
    perllibs=-lcrypt -lutil
    libc=/usr/lib/libc.a, so=dll, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.a
    gnulibc_version=''
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=dll, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' -s'
    cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags=' -s -L/usr/local/lib'

$ cp CPANTEST.RPT CPANTEST.RPTnot8.3.format

$ tail CPANTEST.RPTnot8.3.format
    ld='ld2', ldflags =' -s -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /usr/lib /lib
    libs=-lgdbm -lcrypt -lutil
    perllibs=-lcrypt -lutil
    libc=/usr/lib/libc.a, so=dll, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.a
    gnulibc_version=''
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=dll, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' -s'
    cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags=' -s -L/usr/local/lib'

Gerrit
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