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From: David Rothenberger <daveroth@acm.org>
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Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 19:00:04 -0800
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On 11/14/2019 6:14 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 11/14/2019 8:36 PM, Keith Christian wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 2:32 PM Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 11/14/2019 2:32 PM, Keith Christian wrote:
>>>> The "boxes" command fails to run on a Cygwin64 install two weeks ago.
>>>>
>>>> echo "hello" | /usr/bin/boxes
>>>> boxes: No such file or directory
>>>
>>> Running boxes under strace shows that it is trying to open a file named "-" and
>>> exiting because that file doesn't exist.

I also ran it under strace and for me, it was trying to open a file 
named "u" in my home directory, so maybe this is some kind of buffer error.

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David Rothenberger  ----  daveroth@acm.org


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