From:	earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com (Earnie Boyd)
Subject:	Re: bash -s from .bat file
15 Jul 1998 22:38:06 -0700 :
Message-ID:	<19980715164705.26747.rocketmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@send1e.yahoomail.com>
Reply-To:	earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com
Mime-Version:	1.0
To:	Earl Chew <earl AT hpautodb DOT aus DOT hp DOT com>
Cc:	gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

---Earl Chew <earl AT hpautodb DOT aus DOT hp DOT com> wrote:
>
> : Your stated problem on the directories can be solved like this:
> : 
> :   bash#> cd /
> :   bash#> ln -s //x/a a
> : 
> : now when you do `sh -s /a/b/c/foo.sh %1' it should be able to find
it
> : because //x/a is symbolicly linked to a.
> 
> This is probably true (I haven't tried it yet), but doesn't really
> answer the question why foo.bat containing
> 
> sh -s %1 < \a\b\c\foo.sh
> 
> run from a Win32 command shell doesn't work on b19.
> 

It is most likely because sh which is a port of linuxes ash ends up
trying to open abcfoo.sh instead of \\a\\b\\c\\foo.sh.
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