From: Charles_Boatwright AT cisnc DOT canon DOT com ("Boatwright, Charles") Subject: RE: GNU-Win32 17.1, NT 4.0, and BASH hereis (<<) document 12 Apr 1997 18:38:55 -0700 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Original-To: "'gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com'" , "'Thomas Vaughan'" X-Mailer: Microsoft Exchange Server Internet Mail Connector Version 4.0.994.63 Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Thomas. This is a *very* common problem. It is/will be in the b18 faq It is not in the faq.txt in the ftp directory. mkdir /tmp Best Regards.... -chuck >---------- >From: Thomas Vaughan[SMTP:tvaughan AT redwood DOT dn DOT hac DOT com] >Sent: Friday, April 11, 1997 9:44 AM >To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com >Subject: GNU-Win32 17.1, NT 4.0, and BASH hereis (<<) document > > >I have read the FAQ and perused the mailing list archive, but I have not >found an answer to a strange problem that I have with BASH. After a >complete failure to a configure script for one of the GNU utilities, I >traced the problem to the hereis document feature of BASH. Below is an >example transcript. > > bash$ echo > test < > cow > > chicken > > pig > BASH.EXE: 49082020: No such file or directory > bash$ > >This is a serious problem, because just about all GNU configure scripts use >this BASH feature. A friend of mine who installed GNU-Win32 in almost >exactly the same way on his NT 3.51 machine has no such problem with BASH. >I have reinstalled twice now with the same results each time. > >Any help would be greatly appreciated. > >- >For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to >"gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help". > - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".