Larry Hall writes: >Bakken, Luke writes: >>$ ls -l zcat* >>lrwxrwxrwx 1 lukeb Users 19 Sep 21 16:29 zcat.exe -> >>gzip.exe >>$ rm zcat.exe >>$ ln gzip.exe zcat.exe
Thanks, Luke, now I can use zcat from the Windows command line. >Sure, that's another option but one that eats up disk space if your >partition isn't formatted for NTFS. Replacing "ln" with "ln -s" in your >examples above will get you "Windows shortcuts" which you can use at the >command prompt directly, so long as you don't mind typing ".lnk" at the >end of each linked executable. This assumes you haven't added >"nowinsymlinks" to your CYGWIN environment variable of course. This >approach will save the disk space on non-NTFS partitions. I really think it's worth a few bytes of disk space (even then only on non-NTFS partitions) to have zcat work out of the box in the Windows Command Prompt. That definitely seems like a much better option to having zcat crash or having to type "zcat.lnk", right? Should I file an enhancement request? Thanks, Jamshid -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/