Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Message-ID: <19991109223924.17372.rocketmail@web122.yahoomail.com> Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 14:39:24 -0800 (PST) From: Earnie Boyd Reply-To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com Subject: Re: Symbolic links & RCS To: "André_Oliveira_da_Costa" , cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Cc: "André_Oliveira_da_Costa" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Please send the output of `cygcheck vim.exe' and `cygcheck ci.exe' pasted in the mail. Earnie. --- André_Oliveira_da_Costa wrote: > Hi there, > > is the symbolic link system of CYGWIN full-compliant with its UNIX > counterpart? For example: if I link a RCS dir to another place, 'ls', 'cd' > and 'cp' work fine, but 'vim' doesn't (it says I'm editing a new file if I > try to edit a file which _is_ in the RCS dir). RCS tools (ci, rlog, rcsdiff) > don't work either, as you can see by the output reproduced below: > > [ /cade/Weather\ Channel/src ] ls -l RCS > lrw-r--r-- 1 544 everyone 43 Nov 9 18:03 RCS -> > u://cade/Weather Channel/src/RCS/ > [ /cade/Weather\ Channel/src ] ls -lL RCS > total 4 > -r--r--r-- 1 1296 everyone 7462 Nov 8 20:23 genhtml.c,v > [ /cade/Weather\ Channel/src ] rcsdiff genhtml.c > rcsdiff: RCS/genhtml.c,v: No such file or directory > [ /cade/Weather\ Channel/src ] rlog !$ > rlog genhtml.c > rlog: RCS/genhtml.c,v: No such file or directory > > I went through the FAQ at CYGWIN website, but couldn't find an answer. I > really hope this is due to something I overlooked, because this is the only > flaw I noticed on the behavior of CYGWIN tools (and I need these tools very > bad, because they help keeping my sanity after being forced to switch from > UNIX to NT =T ) > > Any help would be much appreciated. Please reply to mail email address also, > because I don't check this list often. > > TIA, > > Costa > -- > André Oliveira da Costa > (costa AT cade DOT com DOT br) > > > -- > Want to unsubscribe from this list? > Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com