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Subject:	RE: Better solution for calling 'net use' from Cygwin Perl?
Date:	Wed, 15 May 2002 16:45:06 -0400
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From:	"Scott Prive" <Scott DOT Prive AT storigen DOT com>
To:	"David T-G" <davidtg-cygwin AT justpickone DOT org>,
	"CygWin Users' List" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Doh!

I had a bad (meaning 'foolish' :-) feeling we overlooked the
double-escaping just as I opened your email. 

Thanks for your reply David...

-Scott

-----Original Message-----
From: David T-G [mailto:davidtg-cygwin AT justpickone DOT org]
Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 4:15 PM
To: CygWin Users' List
Subject: Re: Better solution for calling 'net use' from Cygwin Perl?


Scott, et al --

...and then Scott Prive said...
% 
% Hello,

Hello!


% 
% I had a .sh script that called Microsoft's "net use" command to mount
drives under Win2k, and this worked:
% net use 't:' '\\myserver\share'

Makes sense.


% 
% However I needed to do this in Cygwin Perl so I could leverage an
existing set of Perl libraries I have.
% 
% For the life of me I could correctly execute the "net use" command
from Perl, because the characters would get escaped or not interpreted
correctly.

I take it you mean you *couldn't*, right?


% 
% The Perl workaround a coworker devised was:
%     my $cmd = "net use 't:' '\\";
%     $cmd .= "\\storigen1u21\\sfstest'";
%    print $cmd;
%     system $cmd;
% 
% and this DOES work. This would be the end of story, except we want to
understand what caused the problem in the first place. I suspect it was
the brain dead Microsoft command processor getting involved with this
system call.

I hate to be picky, but it's worth checking since it certainly ought to
work.  Did you try

  my $cmd = "net use 't:' '\\\\storigen1u21\\sfstest'";

in the course of your efforts?


% 
% Anyone care to elaborate? Thanks,

HTH & HAND


% 
% Scott


:-D
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