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Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 08:44:00 -0700 (PDT)
From: Yu Wang <xianbird_cygwin AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: Question about Running GNU Utilities on Windows XP
To: "Larry Hall \(RFK Partners, Inc\)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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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)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
wrote:
> 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' 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?
> 
> 
> I suspect you're using a non-Cygwin tail.  I don't
> see the problem here.
> Please double-check this and let us know.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Larry Hall                             
> lhall AT rfk DOT com
> RFK Partners, Inc.                     
> http://www.rfk.com
> 838 Washington Street                   (508)
> 893-9779 - RFK Office
> Holliston, MA 01746                     (508)
> 893-9889 - FAX
> 


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