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Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 13:14:38 -0700 (PDT)
From: Gerry Reno <grenoml AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: strings failing
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Cc: grenoml AT yahoo DOT com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.56.0309021550520.14738@slinky.cs.nyu.edu>
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Igor,
  Of course.  I just started a new shell and things seem to be working
correctly now.  I must have changed some define that got things
confused.

thx,
Gerry Reno


--- Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu> wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Gerry Reno wrote:
> 
> > Has anyone seen behavior like this:
> >
> >   On Cygwin 1.3.18 I am seeing strange failures with trying to use
> > strings.  Strings does not seem able to see some files yet 'ls'
> shows
> > them, 'od -cx' shows them.  Also gcc has similar problem in that it
> is
> > reporting: no such file or directory on some compiles.
> >
> > $strings /lib/libc.a
> > d:\mingw\bin\strings.exe: /lib/libc.a: No such file or directory
>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > (This happens for any file in /lib)
> >
> > Any ideas what may be causing strings to fail?
> > thx,
> > Gerry Reno
> 
> You mean, aside from the fact that you aren't using Cygwin's
> "strings"?
> MinGW programs aren't aware of Cygwin mounts.  I suspect you're using
> MinGW gcc as well.
> 	Igor
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