RE: What kind of executable is zcat? Crashes from cmd.exe

ew 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 -- Unsu

What kind of executable is zcat? Crashes from cmd.exe

I just installed Cygwin. What kind of executable is zcat.exe? It doesn't show up when I "dir c:\cygwin\bin\zc*" (only zcmp), but I see it's 19 bytes in Explorer. It works fine within bash, but I want UNIX utilities I can use in the regular Windows Command Prompt. Thanks, J

Best way to associate .tar.gz with "tar -xzf"?

it to be uncompressed and untarred. FYI, it is necessary to cd to that directory and untar only the filename portion without the path, otherwise you get the error appended below. Just thought I would share this. Maybe somebody has a better way to associate cygwin utilities with the Windows ex