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 Reply-To: Cygwin List Message-Id: <6.0.1.1.0.20040213210411.039303e0@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 21:34:39 -0500 To: jamshid@io.com, cygwin@cygwin.com From: Larry Hall Subject: RE: What kind of executable is zcat? Crashes from cmd.exe In-Reply-To: <52541.12.161.72.17.1076714859.squirrel@webmail.io.com> References: <52541.12.161.72.17.1076714859.squirrel@webmail.io.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 06:27 PM 2/13/2004, jamshid@io.com you wrote: >Larry Hall writes: >>Bakken, Luke writes: >>>$ ls -l zcat* >>>lrwxrwxrwx 1 lukeb Users 19 Sep 21 16:29 zcat.exe -> >>>gzip.exe >>>$ rm zcat.exe >>>$ ln gzip.exe zcat.exe > >Thanks, Luke, now I can use zcat from the Windows command line. > >>Sure, that's another option but one that eats up disk space if your >>partition isn't formatted for NTFS. Replacing "ln" with "ln -s" in your >>examples above will get you "Windows shortcuts" which you can use at the >>command prompt directly, so long as you don't mind typing ".lnk" at the >>end of each linked executable. This assumes you haven't added >>"nowinsymlinks" to your CYGWIN environment variable of course. This >>approach will save the disk space on non-NTFS partitions. > >I really think it's worth a few bytes of disk space (even then only on >non-NTFS partitions) to have zcat work out of the box in the Windows >Command Prompt. OK, if you can get everyone that uses Cygwin on non-NTFS partitions to agree to have all the currently linked programs become copies instead, let the list know. ;-) >That definitely seems like a much better option to having zcat crash or >having to type "zcat.lnk", right? Depends on your point of view, I guess. The Cygwin lot can be a fickle bunch. Actually, what's been discussed before is to move in the direction of Windows shortcuts, which you poo-poo above too. >Should I file an enhancement request? Nah. It's a known issue so you'd just be covering the same ground again. Clearly, it's not a high-priority for anyone since the issue has been known for a while. If you really are interested in seeing some kind of change here, a patch to setup might stir-up some action (or further discussion). -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/