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Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 10:09:08 -0800
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From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz@cris.com>
Subject: Re: fsplit problems
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Tyson,

Cygwin does not emulate the Linux operating system at a binary 
executable level. It implements POSIX APIs in terms of Windows APIs. It 
has a great deal of FSF / GNU software, but that software is compiled 
specifically for Cygwin. There's no binary compatibility.

If the tool you want is not already available (it appears not to be a 
part of the Cygwin stock distribution), you can probably compile it 
under Cygwin. If the source has not been ported to Cygwin (in 
particular to accommodate the fact that Cygwin has a dual form of file 
access: text and binary modes), you probably want to use it only on 
binary mounted Cygwin file systems or with CYGWIN "binmode" set.

Your diagnostics come from a file being marked executable (in the file 
modes / chmod sense) but not being recognized as a valid binary for the 
system under which the exec(2) was attempted. The shell then tries to 
interpret the file as a script. Shell syntax errors ensue.

Randall Schulz


At 09:54 2003-03-20, Bourbina, Tyson Derrik (UMR-Student) wrote:
>I was trying to use the same fsplit executable that I use under Redhat 
>Linux, but with Cygwin, it gives this error:
>
>./fsplit: 1: syntax error: "(" unexpected
>
>after typing:
>
>./fsplit
>
>at the prompt (i.e. there was no "(" typed).  It also gives the same 
>error when I try using the fsplit executable to split a file.   Your 
>help would be appreciated.
>
>Regards,
>Tyson Bourbina


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