gunzip question

Jim Balter jqb@netcom.com
Sat Mar 22 12:23:00 GMT 1997


Sheik wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 21 Mar 1997, Jim Balter wrote:
> 
> > Trey Jackson wrote:
> > >
> > > e.g. This is what I encounter:
> > >
> > >    C:\cygnus\H-i386-cygwin32\bin>gunzip resume.txt.gz
> > >    GUNZIP.EXE: resume.txt.gz already has .gz suffix -- unchanged
> >
> > Subtle.  What command processor are you using?  For some reason it is
> > passing the command name as "GUNZIP.EXE" instead of "gunzip",
> 
>  I have noticed this too, whats even odder still... run this puppy in
> bash, and the problem goes away.

Huh?  There's nothing "odd" about the fact that bash does not
incorrectly and inappropriately uppercase argv[0] the way some
windoze command processors do.
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