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* Re: version 1.3 10, problem with gunzip.exe
@ 2002-05-20 12:42 Keen Wayne A Contr AFRL/MNGG
  2002-05-20 13:29 ` Christopher Faylor
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread
From: Keen Wayne A Contr AFRL/MNGG @ 2002-05-20 12:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 'cygwin@cygwin.com'

Mine is listed as that length using ls -l, and it does run (successfully -
never take that
for granted).

I am running 1.3.10, updated this morning.

Wayne Keen

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* RE: version 1.3 10, problem with gunzip.exe
@ 2002-05-22  6:39 Robert Collins
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 11+ messages in thread
From: Robert Collins @ 2002-05-22  6:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc), cygwin



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) [mailto:lhall@rfk.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 1:00 AM

> I guess I can see some value to having the symlinks that 
> setup generates be windows shortcuts.  The obvious plus is 
> that symbolic links to executables and other files should be 
> understood in non-Cygwin shells.  Still, while this is an 
> advantage for those packages that make using of symbolic links for 
> things like this, it's unclear to me that making such a 
> change would result in 
> something intuitive, since the user would need to add ".lnk" to the 
> executable name ("gunzip.exe.lnk" in this case) to get it to 
> work in an non- Cygwin shell.  But probably it's a plus 
> overall since using the Windows shortcuts at least allows for 
> the use of the symlink in non-Cygwin shells, despite the 
> clunkiness of its usage.  In the current case, this is not true.
> 
> There's a nice bit of philosophy for you, don't you think?! ;-)

Yes :}. We initially left setup unchanged because the long term
existence of windows shortcuts wasn't clear, and we had to be backward
compatible. I think we are far enough beyond that that we could accept
patches to alter the behaviour.

Rob

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* RE: version 1.3 10, problem with gunzip.exe
@ 2002-05-21  7:45 Robert Collins
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 11+ messages in thread
From: Robert Collins @ 2002-05-21  7:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Robert Collins, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc),
	Donszelmann, Mark, cygwin



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Collins 
> Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 8:46 AM
> 
> >    2. I believe setup.exe creates symbolic links as if
> > "nowinsymlinks" is 
> >       set.  So setup would create the symbolic links as 
> > Cygwin symlinks 
> >       rather than Windows shortcuts regardless of the 
> setting in the 
> >       CYGWIN environment variable.
> 
> 2 is wrong.

Actually, 2 is right. Setup could do either though.

Rob
 

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* RE: version 1.3 10, problem with gunzip.exe
@ 2002-05-21  7:42 Robert Collins
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 11+ messages in thread
From: Robert Collins @ 2002-05-21  7:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc), Donszelmann, Mark, cygwin



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) [mailto:lhall@rfk.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 3:24 AM

>    2. I believe setup.exe creates symbolic links as if 
> "nowinsymlinks" is 
>       set.  So setup would create the symbolic links as 
> Cygwin symlinks 
>       rather than Windows shortcuts regardless of the setting in the 
>       CYGWIN environment variable.

2 is wrong.

> I think that covers it.  Someone will tell me if (2) is wrong. :-)

Cheers,
Rob

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* version 1.3 10, problem with gunzip.exe
@ 2002-05-20 11:15 Donszelmann, Mark
  2002-05-20 13:12 ` Charles Wilson
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread
From: Donszelmann, Mark @ 2002-05-20 11:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 'cygwin@cygwin.com'

Version 1.3.10 net installation of cygwin seems to have the following problem:

gunzip.exe seems to be only 19 bytes long and does not run.

Regards
Mark Donszelmann

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