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Re: file not working on executables?
On Sep 7 15:05, Luke Kendall wrote:
> I installed the latest Cygwin a couple of days ago. "file" now
> produces no information for binary executables. Anyone else seeing
> this problem? (I checked that "file" is /usr/bin/file.)
>
> $ file /usr/bin/ls.exe
> /usr/bin/ls.exe:
> $ file /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/net.exe
> /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/net.exe:
> $ file /etc/profile
> /etc/profile: ASCII English text
> $ file ~/.profile
> /home/luke/.profile: Bourne shell script text executable
Content-Description: cygcheck.txt
> C:\cygwin / system textmode
> D:\home /home system textmode
> d:\home /u system binmode
> C:\cygwin/bin /usr/bin system textmode
> C:\cygwin/lib /usr/lib system textmode
> .. /cygdrive system textmode,cygdrive
Oh well, why are you still using textmode? We should drop this choice from
setup.exe entirely.
file doesn't cope with textmode right now. I'll fix it to use always binmode.
Corinna
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