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 -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:[email protected] Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
