RE: What kind of executable is zcat? Crashes from cmd.exe

2004-02-13 Thread jamshid
Larry Hall writes: Bakken, Luke writes: $ ls -l zcat* lrwxrwxrwx1 lukebUsers 19 Sep 21 16:29 zcat.exe - gzip.exe $ rm zcat.exe $ ln gzip.exe zcat.exe Thanks, Luke, now I can use zcat from the Windows command line. Sure, that's another option but one that eats up disk space if

RE: What kind of executable is zcat? Crashes from cmd.exe

2004-02-13 Thread Larry Hall
At 06:27 PM 2/13/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: Larry Hall writes: Bakken, Luke writes: $ ls -l zcat* lrwxrwxrwx1 lukebUsers 19 Sep 21 16:29 zcat.exe - gzip.exe $ rm zcat.exe $ ln gzip.exe zcat.exe Thanks, Luke, now I can use zcat from the Windows command line. Sure, that's

Re: What kind of executable is zcat? Crashes from cmd.exe

2004-02-12 Thread Rolf Campbell
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

RE: What kind of executable is zcat? Crashes from cmd.exe

2004-02-12 Thread Bakken, Luke
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.

RE: What kind of executable is zcat? Crashes from cmd.exe

2004-02-12 Thread Larry Hall
At 03:22 PM 2/12/2004, Bakken, Luke you wrote: 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

RE: What kind of executable is zcat? Crashes from cmd.exe

2004-02-12 Thread Ross Boulet
At 03:22 PM 2/12/2004, Bakken, Luke you wrote: 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

Re: What kind of executable is zcat? Crashes from cmd.exe

2004-02-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 03:46:44PM -0600, Ross Boulet wrote: One other caveat I have found with using hard links (on an NTFS partition) involves upgrades. I changed the symlink for ksh.exe - pdksh.exe to a hard link. When an new version of pdksh was installed, it resulted in two non linked

Re: What kind of executable is zcat? Crashes from cmd.exe

2004-02-12 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 03:46:44PM -0600, Ross Boulet wrote: One other caveat I have found with using hard links (on an NTFS partition) involves upgrades. I changed the symlink for ksh.exe - pdksh.exe to a hard link. When an new version of

Re: What kind of executable is zcat? Crashes from cmd.exe

2004-02-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 05:05:30PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 03:46:44PM -0600, Ross Boulet wrote: One other caveat I have found with using hard links (on an NTFS partition) involves upgrades. I changed the symlink for

Re: What kind of executable is zcat? Crashes from cmd.exe

2004-02-12 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 08:59, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 03:46:44PM -0600, Ross Boulet wrote: One other caveat I have found with using hard links (on an NTFS partition) involves upgrades. I changed the symlink for ksh.exe - pdksh.exe to a hard link. When an new version

Re: What kind of executable is zcat? Crashes from cmd.exe

2004-02-12 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 09:05, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: AFAIK, setup has always behaved this way. It first uninstalls the old versions of all packages being upgraded (that's how the old pdksh.exe got unlinked), and then installs the new versions (creating new files, essentially). It never did

Re: What kind of executable is zcat? Crashes from cmd.exe

2004-02-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 09:14:57AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 09:05, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: AFAIK, setup has always behaved this way. It first uninstalls the old versions of all packages being upgraded (that's how the old pdksh.exe got unlinked), and then installs

RE: What kind of executable is zcat? Crashes from cmd.exe

2004-02-12 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID)
12, 2004 5:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: What kind of executable is zcat? Crashes from cmd.exe On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 09:05, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: AFAIK, setup has always behaved this way. It first uninstalls the old versions of all packages being upgraded (that's how the old