Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Message-ID: <19991201195941.19629.qmail@web123.yahoomail.com> Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 11:59:41 -0800 (PST) From: Earnie Boyd Reply-To: earnie_boyd@yahoo.com Subject: Re: Path trouble w. Perl using B20.1 To: "Karl L." , cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii --- "Karl L." wrote: > Path trouble w. Perl using B20.1 > X-Mailer: VM 6.74 under Emacs 19.34.6 > > Hi there, > > I am trying to start using the CygWin user tools as my new command > line environment on Windows NT 4.0, but I am having severe trouble > getting simple access to my perl scripts. They all work find when I > run them from the C: drive, which is mounted on /, but whenever I try > to run them from any other drives (mounted to /d, /e etc) it > fails. See below for a simple test case and system data. > > Any advice? -8<- > > perl version: > Binary build 522 provided by ActiveState Tool Corp. > http://www.ActiveState.com > Built 09:52:28 Nov 2 1999 Non-Cygwin programs will not understand the Cygwin mounted directories or symbolic links. Options: 1) The Cygwin pages give you a link to a Cygwin built perl, download that. 2) Buy the Cygwin V1.0 CD, it comes with a Cygwin build perl. 3) Change the script to use the win32 path. ===== Earnie Boyd Cygwin Newbies, please visit __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com