RE: strange problem

[community help <helpcomm at yahoo dot com>]

Hi Dave,

Thank you very much.

It works fine after extracting inside cygwin by unzip.

Thank you again

--- Dave Korn <dave.korn@artimi.com> wrote:
> ----Original Message----
> >From: community help
> >Sent: 28 April 2005 16:16
> 
> > Hi everybody,
> > 
> > I installed my cygwin in c:\cygwin.
> > After i extracted a zip file of a software (ns-2)
> to
> > c:\cygwin.
> 
>   You obviously think this might matter, but you
> haven't told us why.
>  
> > Now the problem is that the content of the
> directory
> > c:\cygwin\usr\bin from windows explorer is not the
> > same as the result of the ls command in /usr/bin
> from
> > cygwin.
> > Is this normal or not?
> 
> 
>   Yes, it's normal.  The directory path /usr/bin is
> actually a cygwin mount
> point that just points straight back into /bin, so
> /usr/bin and /bin are the
> same.
>  
> > If yes, please tell me how can i access the
> directory
> > "c:\cygwin\usr\bin" from cygwin.
> 
>   You don't want to.  It's just a dummy empty dir
> for the mountpoint.  You
> don't want to have any files in there.
> 
>   So it sounds like (but I'm guessing here, because
> you gave so few details)
> the unzipping has gone wrong and some of the files
> have ended up in
> c:\cygwin\usr\bin.  And you can't get at them from
> within cygwin, because
> that directory is overridden by the mountpoint.
> 
>   Well, if you unzipped it using Winzip or some
> other windoze program that
> doesn't understand cygwin mount points, it will have
> just put everything
> into C:\cygwin\usr\bin, which isn't accessible under
> cygwin, so it's broken.
> If you used a windows unzip utility, please try
> again using the cygwin unzip
> command; that way anything it tries to put into
> /usr/bin will end up in /bin
> and still be accessible, instead of ending up in the
> dummy /usr/bin
> directory and being hidden by the mountpoint.
> 
>     cheers,
>       DaveK
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