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From: Rolf Campbell <Endlisnis AT mailc DOT net>
Subject: Re: What kind of executable is zcat? Crashes from cmd.exe
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:01:13 -0500
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Jamshid Afshar wrote:
> I just installed Cygwin. What kind of executable is zcat.exe? It doesn't
> show up when I "dir c:\cygwin\bin\zc*" (only zcmp), but I see it's 19
> bytes in Explorer. It works fine within bash, but I want UNIX utilities I
> can use in the regular Windows Command Prompt.

$ ls -l zcat.exe
lrwxrwxrwx    1 rcampbel Users          19 Jan  6 17:06 zcat.exe -> gzip.exe

As you can see from the ls output, it's a symbolic link (doesn't work in 
cmd).  You can still call gunzip -c (or whatever).


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