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Re: vi won't execute - symlink semantics changed?
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 15:33:25 +0100
- Subject: Re: vi won't execute - symlink semantics changed?
- References: <20021108051641.687E3340A1@nevin.research.canon.com.au>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 04:16:41PM +1100, luke.kendall@cisra.canon.com.au wrote:
> I updated my Cygwin installation to the latest version, yesterday.
> (That included the fresh bash-2.05-7 and binutils.)
>
> Since then, I can't run vi except by either specifying the full path
> /usr/bin/vi or using vim. In other words, the symlink from vi ->
> vim.exe does not get used.
>
> I also notice that if you do a test -x /usr/bin/vi that now fails; I
> believe it used to succeed.
I checked both with 1.3.15-2 and can't reproduce it.
Corinna
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