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Date:	Fri, 7 Feb 2014 16:54:42 +0400
From:	Andrey Repin <anrdaemon AT yandex DOT ru>
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Greetings, Mike Rushton!

Please don't http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU

> What would you say to this ?

> I have to use an EDI translator - it runs under windows/dos and had unix 
> versions

If it have UNIX version, perhaps, a Cygwin package for it exists, or it can be
compiled.

> I was trying this ... but the program needed to see the path of a config 
> file ... after the -cp switch.

> /cygdrive/c/gentran61SA/lftran /cygdrive/c/gentran61sa/data/EDN -id -cp /cygdrive/c/Gentran61SA

As one of possible solutions:
/cygdrive/c/gentran61SA/lftran "$( cygpath -lw /cygdrive/c/gentran61sa/data/EDN )" -id -cp  "$( cygpath -lw /cygdrive/c/Gentran61SA )"

> It gave me errors can not open file /cygdrive/c/Gentran61SA\ediprim.cfg.  It was like the program could not figure out
> what style of paths to use.

> I changed it to :  (escape out of bash and run this code)

> ! c:/gentran61SA/lftran c:/gentran61sa/data/EDN -id -cp c:/Gentran61SA

> and it worked perfectly.    Is there a better way to do this ?

"Better" in this case is subjective.


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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon AT yandex DOT ru) 07.02.2014, <16:50>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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