Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 10:39:05 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) From: Michael A Chase Subject: Re: Cygwin and ATT ksh, specific example To: Paul Coltrin , cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: INLINE References: <3.0.6.32.20020729144758.00aa3100@phoenix.projtech.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20020729144758.00aa3100@phoenix.projtech.com> On Mon, 29 Jul 2002 14:47:58 Paul Coltrin wrote: > I have been working to port scripts from MKS ksh to ATT ksh on Cygwin. > Here is a specific example of a problem I have run into. When I try to > execute an NT command script from ATTksh I get a permission error. For > example: > > $ksh > $ ./gen_file.cmd > ksh: ./pt_gen_file.cmd: cannot execute [Permission denied] > > However, I can run it just fine from Cygwin-bash and MKSksh. > > Any suggestions, please? Use bash? ATT ksh is practically another environment all to itself. It is nice of the ksh group to try to create a version that will work with Cygwin, but bash will probably always be better integrated with Cygwin and its view of MS Windows. I normally use the Bourne shell subset when I code shell scripts just to avoid portablility problems even when I expect to use ksh or bash to run them. -- Mac :}) ** I normally forward private questions to the appropriate mail list. ** Ask Smarter: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Give a hobbit a fish and he eats fish for a day. Give a hobbit a ring and he eats fish for an age. -- 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/