Shing-Fat Fred Ma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I try to "ls" a file I know to be > there, I'm told it isn't:
No, as you show below, ls works, less doesn't. > $ cd /usr/bin > $ ls -l ftp telnet > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 unknown unknown 57344 Jan 6 2002 ftp* > -rwxr-xr-x 1 unknown unknown 79360 Jan 6 2002 telnet* > > $ less ftp telnet > > ftp: No such file or directory > telnet: No such file or directory > > I don't really want to less a binary file, > just see whether the file's presence > is recognized. Well the files are, of course, ftp.exe and telnet.exe. Cygwin's automagical .exe workarounds seems to not be working when going through a mount where there is no underlying directory. Max. -- 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/
