strings failing

Tue Sep 2 18:31:00 GMT 2003

Has anyone seen behavior like this:
 On Cygwin 1.3.18 I am seeing strange failures with trying to use
strings. Strings does not seem able to see some files yet 'ls' shows
them, 'od -cx' shows them. Also gcc has similar problem in that it is
reporting: no such file or directory on some compiles.
$strings /lib/libc.a
d:\mingw\bin\strings.exe: /lib/libc.a: No such file or directory
(This happens for any file in /lib)
$ls -l /lib/libc.a
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administ None 745742 Dec 25 2002 /lib/libc.a
$od -cx /lib/libc.a
0000000 ! < a r c h > \n /
 3c21 7261 6863 0a3e 202f 2020 2020 2020
0000020 1 0 4 0 8 4 8 7
 2020 2020 2020 2020 3031 3034 3438 3738
0000040 4 1 0 0
 3134 2020 2030 2020 2020 2030 2020 2020
0000060 0 3 3 7 0 4
 2030 2020 2020 2020 3333 3037 2034 2020
0000100 ` \n 0円 0円 \a 225 0円 0円 203 354 0円 0円 206 200
 2020 0a60 0000 9507 0000 ec83 0000 8086
0000120 0円 0円 211 300 0円 0円 211 300 0円 0円 214 216 0円 0円 214 216
 0000 c089 0000 c089 0000 8e8c 0000 8e8c
0000140 0円 0円 217 X 0円 0円 217 X 0円 0円 222 ( 0円 0円 222 (
 0000 588f 0000 588f 0000 2892 0000 2892
Any ideas what may be causing strings to fail?
thx,
Gerry Reno
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