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Re: B.20.1 bash question - paths sent to #!
- To: "Al and Patricia" <carat at earthlink dot net>, <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: B.20.1 bash question - paths sent to #!
- From: "Doug Wyatt" <dwyatt at sunflower dot com>
- Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 23:52:44 -0600
- Reply-to: dwyatt at sunflower dot com
Hi,
I believe I've seen some recent postings about converting pathname
formats - check the archives at <http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/cygwin/>.
Quite some time back, I tried using the AS Perl with Cygwin but the final
straw was when I found that AS Perl didn't implement fork and exec.
I'd recommend trying the Cygwin port of Perl; it's fully compatible with
Cygwin and seems very stable. Look to <http://cygutils.netpedia.net/> if
you want to try it.
Regards,
Doug Wyatt
> Hello -
>
> I looked in the archives and did not see a solution to this issue:
>
> I have 3 drives on my NT 4.0 system: C: D: E:.
> I have a perl script that has "#!/usr/bin/perl" in it.
> I am trying to put the perl script in my path, so that I can run it from
> any drive.
> I am using ActiveState Perl.
>
> Here is the situation. First, my perl script is called "pop3", and it
> resides in /e/perl/bin. If I put /e/perl/bin in my path, then I believe
> that bash calls /usr/bin/perl with the file name as /e/perl/bin/pop3.
> However, AS Perl can't interpret this file name and gives a "file not found"
> error.
>
> I tried putting /perl/bin/ in my path, and this works, as long as I am "on"
> the e drive. When I go to another drive, /perl/bin does not exist, and
> calling pop3 fails again.
>
> So what I'd like is to have bash convert the Posix path of the called script
> to win32 when using the #! syntax, so that AS Perl (and other interpreters)
> will have a path it can work with. Is there a workaround?
>
> I hope this makes sense. Let me know if can clarify.
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> Al and Patricia
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