Re: Question about Running GNU Utilities on Windows XP

2002-10-07 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Yu, First off, is the file a shortcut, by any chance? If so, check that the target of the shortcut exists. Also, do other utilities similar to tail (e.g., head, more, cat) work with that file, or is the problem particular to tail? Try using tab-completion in bash as well - it should produce th

Re: Question about Running GNU Utilities on Windows XP

2002-10-07 Thread Randall R Schulz
Yu, Are you viewing the file name(s) from Windows Explorer, or via Cygwin "ls"? If it's the former, do you have file name suffix suppression turned on. (To check, using Windows Explorer activate the "Folder Options" dialog via the "Tools -> Folder Options ..." menu command and switch to the "V

Re: Question about Running GNU Utilities on Windows XP

2002-10-07 Thread Yu Wang
Hi Gerrit and Felix, Even I use full path C:\cygwin\bin\tail.exe C:\cygwin\bin\ ParaTestDatalogStripped.gold (I copy a file ParaTestDatalogStripped.gold to C:\cygwin\bin folder) it still does not work. I also add C:\cygwin\bin as first in path, still does not work. Another interesting thing is:

RE: Question about Running GNU Utilities on Windows XP

2002-10-07 Thread Shankar Unni
Yu Wang writes: > Did you met any problem when you use tail.exe on a > file with long filename. > The command: tail paratestdatalog.out Works. > The command: tail paratestdatalog.gold Works. > The command: tail parate~1.gold Does not work. If part of the filename is using the "short notation

Re: Question about Running GNU Utilities on Windows XP

2002-10-07 Thread Yu Wang
Hi Shankar, Did you met any problem when you use tail.exe on a file with long filename. 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

Re: Question about Running GNU Utilities on Windows XP

2002-10-07 Thread Shankar Unni
On 10/7/2002 8:45 AM, Yu Wang wrote: > 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? Yes, for several months now (

Re: Question about Running GNU Utilities on Windows XP

2002-10-07 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Yu, Am Montag, 7. Oktober 2002 um 17:48 schriebst du: > 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

Re: Question about Running GNU Utilities on Windows XP

2002-10-07 Thread Yu Wang
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: > H

Re: Question about Running GNU Utilities on Windows XP

2002-10-07 Thread Yu Wang
Hi Larry, 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 --- "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Question about Running GNU Utilities on Windows XP

2002-10-06 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
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 > produc

Re: Question about Running GNU Utilities on Windows XP

2002-10-05 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
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' e