Hi Gerrit, Thank you so much for kind reply. I ran the tail.exe directly from \cygwin\bin directory and got the problem, I thought I was using correct tail.exe, any thought? And more, have you ever run tail.exe successfully on XP?
Thanks, Yu --- "Gerrit P. Haase" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hallo Yu, > > Am Samstag, 5. Oktober 2002 um 21:53 schriebst du: > > > 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? > > Check your PATH settings, probably you're not using > Cygwin's > /usr/bin/tail.exe > > $ tail CPANTEST.RPT > ld='ld2', ldflags =' -s -L/usr/local/lib' > libpth=/usr/local/lib /usr/lib /lib > libs=-lgdbm -lcrypt -lutil > perllibs=-lcrypt -lutil > libc=/usr/lib/libc.a, so=dll, useshrplib=true, > libperl=libperl.a > gnulibc_version='' > Dynamic Linking: > dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=dll, d_dlsymun=undef, > ccdlflags=' -s' > cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags=' -s -L/usr/local/lib' > > $ cp CPANTEST.RPT CPANTEST.RPTnot8.3.format > > $ tail CPANTEST.RPTnot8.3.format > ld='ld2', ldflags =' -s -L/usr/local/lib' > libpth=/usr/local/lib /usr/lib /lib > libs=-lgdbm -lcrypt -lutil > perllibs=-lcrypt -lutil > libc=/usr/lib/libc.a, so=dll, useshrplib=true, > libperl=libperl.a > gnulibc_version='' > Dynamic Linking: > dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=dll, d_dlsymun=undef, > ccdlflags=' -s' > cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags=' -s -L/usr/local/lib' > > > > Gerrit > -- > =^..^= > > > -- > 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/ > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More http://faith.yahoo.com -- 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/
