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Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 09:42:23 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: file not working on executables?
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On Sep  7 15:05, Luke Kendall wrote:
> I installed the latest Cygwin a couple of days ago.  "file" now
> produces no information for binary executables.  Anyone else seeing
> this problem?  (I checked that "file" is /usr/bin/file.)
> 
> $ file /usr/bin/ls.exe
> /usr/bin/ls.exe: 
> $ file /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/net.exe
> /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/net.exe: 
> $ file /etc/profile
> /etc/profile: ASCII English text
> $ file ~/.profile
> /home/luke/.profile: Bourne shell script text executable

Content-Description: cygcheck.txt
> C:\cygwin      /          system  textmode
> D:\home        /home      system  textmode
> d:\home        /u         system  binmode
> C:\cygwin/bin  /usr/bin   system  textmode
> C:\cygwin/lib  /usr/lib   system  textmode
> ..              /cygdrive  system  textmode,cygdrive

Oh well, why are you still using textmode?  We should drop this choice from
setup.exe entirely.

file doesn't cope with textmode right now.  I'll fix it to use always binmode.


Corinna

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