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 Message-ID: <001b01c28e97$f4556c00$78d96f83@pomello> From: "Max Bowsher" To: "Shing-Fat Fred Ma" , References: <1037497099.24907.ezmlm@cygwin.com> <3DD82D5A.6060306@doe.carleton.ca> Subject: Re: No such file, but it's right there Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 00:18:00 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Shing-Fat Fred Ma 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. -- 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/