"file" command missing magic file (problem and solution)

I encountered the following problem with command "file" in CYGWIN_NT-5.1 v1.7.7 on a PC running Windows XP Professional. It took me half an hour to figure out what the issue was so I thought I will share this and hopefully spare others from having to go through the same. I have done a quick ch

Re: running a DOS batch file from a shell script - script doesn't wait for batch file to complete before continuing

Hi Larry, Since you were the only person who was kind enough to take the time to respond to my initial question, I owe it to you to provide a followup on this subject. I wrote a few DOS batch files as well as shell scripts to try and troubleshoot the problem. I managed to track down the problem to

Re: running a DOS batch file from a shell script - script doesn't wait for batch file to complete before continuing

I guess I should have been more specific with my original posting... I was running pro_batch in command-line mode (pro_batch -text ...) and not interactive mode, i.e. not using the GUI at all. I thought it was implied since I was talking about running a shell script and a batch file. The shell scri

running a DOS batch file from a shell script - script doesn't wait for batch file to complete before continuing

Hi, I have a shell script (#!/bin/sh) that runs a DOS batch file. During the execution of the shell script, it runs the DOS batch file (Pro/ENGINEER's PRO_BATCH.BAT to generate a plot file) but the script does not appear to wait for the DOS batch file to finish first before continuing. I tried