fsplit problems

2003-03-20 Thread Bourbina, Tyson Derrik (UMR-Student)
I was trying to use the same fsplit executable that I use under Redhat Linux, but with Cygwin, it gives this error: ./fsplit: 1: syntax error: ( unexpected after typing: ./fsplit at the prompt (i.e. there was no ( typed). It also gives the same error when I try using the fsplit executable

Re: fsplit problems

2003-03-20 Thread Randall R Schulz
Tyson, Cygwin does not emulate the Linux operating system at a binary executable level. It implements POSIX APIs in terms of Windows APIs. It has a great deal of FSF / GNU software, but that software is compiled specifically for Cygwin. There's no binary compatibility. If the tool you want is

Re: fsplit problems

2003-03-20 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Bourbina, Tyson Derrik (UMR-Student) wrote: I was trying to use the same fsplit executable that I use under Redhat Linux, but with Cygwin, it gives this error: ./fsplit: 1: syntax error: ( unexpected after typing: ./fsplit at the prompt (i.e. there was no ( typed).

Re: fsplit problems

2003-03-20 Thread Tyson Bourbina
Thanks, you answered my question. It was a binary file. I thought Cygwin was binary-compatible with Linux. Thanks for your help. Tyson On Thursday, March 20, 2003, at 12:08 PM, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Bourbina, Tyson Derrik (UMR-Student) wrote: I was trying to use the

Re: Re: fsplit problems

2003-03-20 Thread Timothy C Prince
fsplit can easily be built under cygwin from source. If there's any interest, I could sign on as maintainer. -Original Message- From: Tyson Bourbina [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 12:15:45 -0600 Subject: Re: fsplit problems Thanks, you answered my