Hi Dave, Thank you very much.
It works fine after extracting inside cygwin by unzip. Thank you again --- Dave Korn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ----Original Message---- > >From: community help > >Sent: 28 April 2005 16:16 > > > Hi everybody, > > > > I installed my cygwin in c:\cygwin. > > After i extracted a zip file of a software (ns-2) > to > > c:\cygwin. > > You obviously think this might matter, but you > haven't told us why. > > > Now the problem is that the content of the > directory > > c:\cygwin\usr\bin from windows explorer is not the > > same as the result of the ls command in /usr/bin > from > > cygwin. > > Is this normal or not? > > > Yes, it's normal. The directory path /usr/bin is > actually a cygwin mount > point that just points straight back into /bin, so > /usr/bin and /bin are the > same. > > > If yes, please tell me how can i access the > directory > > "c:\cygwin\usr\bin" from cygwin. > > You don't want to. It's just a dummy empty dir > for the mountpoint. You > don't want to have any files in there. > > So it sounds like (but I'm guessing here, because > you gave so few details) > the unzipping has gone wrong and some of the files > have ended up in > c:\cygwin\usr\bin. And you can't get at them from > within cygwin, because > that directory is overridden by the mountpoint. > > Well, if you unzipped it using Winzip or some > other windoze program that > doesn't understand cygwin mount points, it will have > just put everything > into C:\cygwin\usr\bin, which isn't accessible under > cygwin, so it's broken. > If you used a windows unzip utility, please try > again using the cygwin unzip > command; that way anything it tries to put into > /usr/bin will end up in /bin > and still be accessible, instead of ending up in the > dummy /usr/bin > directory and being hidden by the mountpoint. > > cheers, > DaveK > -- > Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: > http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: > http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
