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 X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: ronald owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 10:54:46 +0100 (CET) From: Ronald Landheer-Cieslak X-X-Sender: ronald@localhost.localdomain To: Kodaj Bence cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Starting .exe: DOS prompt OK, double-click not In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Sat, 22 Mar 2003, Kodaj Bence wrote: [sbip] > (The actual Tcl/Tk installation on my machine is ActiveTcl 8.4., but > that's not really important.) Windows doesn't understand POSIX paths.. > Now, when I double-click on OurApp.exe in Windows Explorer, I get the > following error message from wish: > Error in startup script couldn't read file > "/cygdrive/c/OurAppFolder/OurScript.tcl": no such file or directory ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This is a POSIX path. You can translate it to a Windows path using the Cygwin API call cygwin_conv_to_win32_path See http://cygwin.com/cygwin-api/func-cygwin-conv-to-win32-path.html for details HTH rlc -- 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/