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 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Rolf Campbell Subject: Re: What kind of executable is zcat? Crashes from cmd.exe Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:01:13 -0500 Lines: 11 Message-ID: References: <45460.12.161.72.17.1076608060.squirrel@webmail.io.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ottgw.tropicnetworks.com User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (Windows/20040207) In-Reply-To: <45460.12.161.72.17.1076608060.squirrel@webmail.io.com> Jamshid Afshar wrote: > I just installed Cygwin. What kind of executable is zcat.exe? It doesn't > show up when I "dir c:\cygwin\bin\zc*" (only zcmp), but I see it's 19 > bytes in Explorer. It works fine within bash, but I want UNIX utilities I > can use in the regular Windows Command Prompt. $ ls -l zcat.exe lrwxrwxrwx 1 rcampbel Users 19 Jan 6 17:06 zcat.exe -> gzip.exe As you can see from the ls output, it's a symbolic link (doesn't work in cmd). You can still call gunzip -c (or whatever). -- 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/