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Re: Question about Running GNU Utilities on Windows XP
- From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>
- To: Yu Wang <xianbird_cygwin at yahoo dot com>,cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2002 20:23:55 -0400
- Subject: Re: Question about Running GNU Utilities on Windows XP
At 03:53 PM 10/5/2002, Yu Wang wrote:
>Hi,
>
>We are running into a problem using the GNU utilities,
>(specifically TAIL.EXE) on Windows XP when we run them
>against names that are not in the 8.3 format.
>
>For example:
>The command: tail paratestdatalog.out
> produces a 'No file or directory' error
>
>The command: tail paratestdatalog.gold
> produces a 'No file or directory' error
>
>The command: tail parate~1.gold
> produces a 'No file or directory' error
>
>The command: tail parate~1.out
> works
>
>Is there is an update or do we need to recompile or
>something?
I suspect you're using a non-Cygwin tail. I don't see the problem here.
Please double-check this and let us know.
Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com
838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX
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