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Subject:  Re: Help. Cygwin corrupting files
Date:  Mon, 12 Feb 2007 11:14:22 -0500
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Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> 
> Have you checked if you can do similar operations with DOS commands?  I
> believe what you're seeing here is a hardware (probably disk) problem.
> Years ago I had a failing disk pick off files randomly for a while until
> the whole thing finally went.
> 
> 

Is there a way to run the "ls" command in debug mode so I can see
exactly where it's failing? It might give me some indication of what's
going on.

TIA


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