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Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 12:15:45 -0600
Subject: Re: fsplit problems
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From: Tyson Bourbina <tyson AT umr DOT edu>
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Thanks, you answered my question.  It was a binary file.  I thought 
Cygwin was binary-compatible with Linux.  Thanks for your help.

Tyson

On Thursday, March 20, 2003, at 12:08 PM, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Bourbina, Tyson Derrik (UMR-Student) wrote:
>
>> I was trying to use the same fsplit executable that I use under Redhat
>> Linux, but with Cygwin, it gives this error:
>>
>> ./fsplit: 1: syntax error: "(" unexpected
>>
>> after typing:
>>
>> ./fsplit
>>
>> at the prompt (i.e. there was no "(" typed).  It also gives the same
>> error when I try using the fsplit executable to split a file.  Your 
>> help
>> would be appreciated.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Tyson Bourbina
>
> Tyson,
>
> You haven't really given much information to go on here, but I can 
> make a
> few guesses:
> 1) Cygwin is not binary-compatible with Linux, so I'm assuming fsplit 
> is
> not a binary, but rather a shell script.
> 2) On Linux, /bin/sh is usually bash.  Not so on Cygwin (/bin/sh is 
> ash).
> The script could be bash-specific.  Try changing the first line of 
> fsplit
> from '#!/bin/sh' to '#!/bin/bash' and see if it helps.
> 	Igor
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