RE: GNU-Win32 17.1, NT 4.0, and BASH hereis (<<) document

["Boatwright, Charles" <Charles_Boatwright at cisnc dot canon dot com>]

Thomas.

This is a *very* common problem.  It is/will be in the b18 faq

It is not in the faq.txt in the ftp directory. 

mkdir /tmp


Best Regards....

-chuck
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>From: 	Thomas Vaughan[SMTP:tvaughan@redwood.dn.hac.com]
>Sent: 	Friday, April 11, 1997 9:44 AM
>To: 	gnu-win32@cygnus.com
>Subject: 	GNU-Win32 17.1, NT 4.0, and BASH hereis (<<) document
>
>
>I have read the FAQ and perused the mailing list archive, but I have not
>found an answer to a strange problem that I have with BASH.  After a
>complete failure to a configure script for one of the GNU utilities, I
>traced the problem to the hereis document feature of BASH.  Below is an
>example transcript.
>
>   bash$ echo > test <<pig
>   > cow
>   > chicken
>   > pig
>   BASH.EXE: 49082020: No such file or directory
>   bash$
>
>This is a serious problem, because just about all GNU configure scripts use
>this BASH feature.  A friend of mine who installed GNU-Win32 in almost
>exactly the same way on his NT 3.51 machine has no such problem with BASH.
>I have reinstalled twice now with the same results each time.
>
>Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
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