Peter, I think David was pointing you to the FAQ so that you would find http://cygwin.com/packages/. This is the way to find out what packages are in Cygwin. It's also the way to search the packages for strings of interest, in this case, iostat. Is this what you did? I'm guessing not, though I'm a bit surprised that you somehow missed it. What threw you off? Anyway, iostat only shows up in 1 package, cygwin-1.3.10-1-src. This is not a tool but rather the source implementation from newlib (i.e. the Cygwin C library). This should tell you that you can stop downloading packages and settle with the notion that iostat is not available in the current packages.
Sorry. Larry Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX At 08:16 PM 4/30/2002, Peter Moulding wrote: >Hello David, >Neither page mentions iostat. Lots of programs are bundled in to >packages where the package description mentions only a few or none of >the enclosed programs. > >I found iostat listed in a Cygwin Web page a few days ago but did not >bookmark the page. The page listed a directory structure that did not >match anything in Cygwin and none of the path components matched package >names. > >That leaves me with one entry on the Cygwin site that mentioned an >iostat.h file but nothing in the download. Through trial and error, I >currently have 182 Mb of Cygwin installed, over 12,000 files, but still >no iostat. Surely there must be an easier way. There must be a file that >lists the contents of packages. > >Peter > >-----Original Message----- >From: David Starks-Browning [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Tuesday, 30 April 2002 6:58 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Where is iostat? > >On Tuesday 30 Apr 02, Peter Moulding writes: > > I cannot find iostat and some other commands in Cygwin. How do you >find > > out which package contains a command? > >Read the Cygwin FAQ entry "Which packages should I download?". Or >find "Package Listing" on the Cygwin home page. > >Not too hard, really. > >David > > >-- >Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple >Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html >Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html >FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
