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RE: GNU-Win32 17.1, NT 4.0, and BASH hereis (<<) document
- To: "'gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com'" <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>, "'Thomas Vaughan'" <tvaughan at redwood dot dn dot hac dot com>
- Subject: RE: GNU-Win32 17.1, NT 4.0, and BASH hereis (<<) document
- From: "Boatwright, Charles" <Charles_Boatwright at cisnc dot canon dot com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 18:21:43 -0700
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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