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 Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 10:36:48 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Is there a 'ping' in cygwin? Message-ID: <20031020143648.GB11148@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4989AFD7505BD611961B0002A5DA3E740382BE65@NNHML2> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4989AFD7505BD611961B0002A5DA3E740382BE65@NNHML2> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 10:09:59AM +0100, Hughes, Bill wrote: >Sent: 18 October 2003 13:57 From: Thorsten Kampe >> > I shall now fix my path and create symlinks so 'ping' works. >> >> There's no sense in creating symlinks if you fix the PATH. >> >> Thorsten > >Without the symlink I have to use 'PING.EXE', with it I can use 'ping'. >Cygwin has two main benefits for me - it makes windows usable (mainly for >work) and it helps me migrate to linux at home. Hence I would prefer to be >as unix/linux like as possible - so I use "check_case:strict". Seems like a simpler solution would be to: mv PING.EXE foo mv foo ping.exe -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/