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Cool.. Thanks, Smithesh. "Gerrit P. Haase" wrote: > Hallo Smithesh, > > Am Samstag, 5. Oktober 2002 um 01:34 schriebst du: > > > Hi Peter, > > Like Mark said cygwin perl is a much better option. I use it quite often. > > > I think you still can execute active perl or any windows executable on > > Cygwin. > > > Make sure you are escaping '\' by '/' on the directory paths. For e.g., if > > you are trying to execute something on your windows at > > C:\Sample\pscp.exe. > > > Then you will do the following on your cygwin prompt > > admin AT TMLA_SRAMACHAND ~ C:/\Sample/\pscp.exe > > The problem with ActiveStates Perl is that it knows nothing about > Cygwin paths. If you want to read a file '/usr/test/text.txt' with > ActiveState Perl you need to translate the paths to Windows syntax > (-> 'C:\cygwin\usr\test\text.txt'). > There are tools included with Cygwin to help with this (cygpath.exe), > but it is a pita. Cygwin Perl is linked against cygwin1.dll and all > this translation is done automatically for you. > > Gerrit > -- > =^..^= -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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