Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 18:09:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Yu Wang cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Question about Running GNU Utilities on Windows XP In-Reply-To: <20021007211649.43728.qmail@web13114.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Yu, First off, is the file a shortcut, by any chance? If so, check that the target of the shortcut exists. Also, do other utilities similar to tail (e.g., head, more, cat) work with that file, or is the problem particular to tail? Try using tab-completion in bash as well - it should produce the exact filename... Igor On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Yu Wang wrote: > Hi Gerrit and Felix, > > Even I use full path > C:\cygwin\bin\tail.exe C:\cygwin\bin\ > ParaTestDatalogStripped.gold > (I copy a file ParaTestDatalogStripped.gold to > C:\cygwin\bin folder) > it still does not work. I also add C:\cygwin\bin as > first in path, still does not work. > > Another interesting thing is: Originally, the filename > is ParaTestDatalogStripped.gold. I use tail.exe on > this file, system tell me can not find > ParaTestDatalog.gold. Then, I rename the file to > ParaTestDatalog.gold, system still tell me can not > find ParaTestDatalog.gold. At last, I rename the file > to ParaTest.gol, system still tell me can not find > ParaTestDatalog.gold. So odd and so stubborn. Any > idea? > > Thanks, > > Yu > > --- "Gerrit P. Haase" wrote: > > Hallo Yu, > > > > Am Montag, 7. Oktober 2002 um 17:48 schriebst du: > > > > > Hi Gerrit, > > > > > Thank you so much for kind reply. I ran the tail.exe > > > directly from \cygwin\bin directory and got the > > > problem, I thought I was using correct tail.exe, any > > > thought? And more, have you ever run tail.exe > > > successfully on XP? > > > > No, I have no XP. But it should make no difference. > > Try to call the Cygwin tail.exe with the full path > > included: > > C:\cygwin\bin\tail.exe or in a bash shell: > > /bin/tail.exe and > > see if it still doesn't work. > > > > Gerrit > > -- > > =^..^= -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Water molecules expand as they grow warmer" (C) Popular Science, Oct'02, p.51 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/