fsplit can easily be built under cygwin from source. If there's any interest, I could
sign on as maintainer.
-----Original Message-----
From: Tyson Bourbina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 12:15:45 -0600
Subject: Re: fsplit problems
Thanks, you answered my question. It was a binary file. I thought
Cygwin was binary-compatible with Linux. Thanks for your help.
Tyson
On Thursday, March 20, 2003, at 12:08 PM, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Bourbina, Tyson Derrik (UMR-Student) wrote:
>
>> I was trying to use the same fsplit executable that I use under Redhat
>> Linux, but with Cygwin, it gives this error:
>>
>> ./fsplit: 1: syntax error: "(" unexpected
>>
>> after typing:
>>
>> ./fsplit
>>
>> at the prompt (i.e. there was no "(" typed). It also gives the same
>> error when I try using the fsplit executable to split a file. Your
>> help
>> would be appreciated.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Tyson Bourbina
>
> Tyson,
>
> You haven't really given much information to go on here, but I can
> make a
> few guesses:
> 1) Cygwin is not binary-compatible with Linux, so I'm assuming fsplit
> is
> not a binary, but rather a shell script.
> 2) On Linux, /bin/sh is usually bash. Not so on Cygwin (/bin/sh is
> ash).
> The script could be bash-specific. Try changing the first line of
> fsplit
> from '#!/bin/sh' to '#!/bin/bash' and see if it helps.
> Igor
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