installing pinfo

Robert Mark Bram relaxedrob@optushome.com.au
Mon Feb 3 07:53:00 GMT 2003


Howdy Elfyn and Igor,

> > As far as setup (cygcheck) is concerned you have pinfo
> installed but it's
> > not working (corrupt, unknown?).Double check your path (PATH
> env. variable)
> > is set-up correctly, just a thought before you re-install. If
> cygwin (your
> > PATH env. variable) is set-up correctly return to setup and re-install
> > pinfo.

...

> To the OP: one more guess, though: try posting the result of "ls -l
> /bin/pinfo.exe" (notice the extension).  If that file exists, but is not
> executable, there's something wrong with either your CYGWIN variable or
> your mount table (or your umask, but I doubt that).

Here is the result of the testing I did:

  $ cd /bin

  $ pwd
  /bin

  $ ls | grep pinfo
  zipinfo

Well... I reinstalled (through Cygwin's setup.exe) and now it works - I see
something exciting when I type the command "pinfo".. next step: figuring out
how to use pinfo!

Thanks for the help!

Rob
:)



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