From: eckert AT netcom DOT com (SRE) Subject: drag/drop args (was Re: Shell-Here Explorer) 4 Dec 1997 19:27:50 -0800 Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.19971204092711.009cf9d0.cygnus.gnu-win32@10.0.2.2> References: <19971204135649 DOT 22359 DOT qmail AT hotmail DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: "Earnie Boyd" Cc: eckert AT netcom DOT com, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com At 05:56 AM 12/04/97 PST, Earnie Boyd wrote: >BASH is command line only; just like MSDOS only a little smarter. Right, but I've got lots of reasons to drag files into command line applications. I do it with FTP, for instance, instead of "cd path" and then "put file". I just type "put", and drag the file off explorer. Dragging into a BASH window works also, it's just that none of the tools know how to deal with the text that shows up on the command line. >The rest of the .exe's in the set are to be executed in a command shell. >No GUI. I don't really want a GUI shell. My drag/drop icons typically start either a NT CMD script or a console application... neither of which know about windows, but both of which need to be able to feed command line args into a program or set of programs. I'm just looking for a way to easily create arguments, rather than typing them in by hand. It is "windows", after all, not "vt100". One of the reasons I use my NT box more than my Sun and HP unix boxes is precisely because I don't have to type filenames or set up lots of clever aliases. But what I'm hearing is that you can only use gnu-win32 tools in isolation from other tools, right? For instance, I've been using perl for quite some time from a CMD script, but if I call it from BASH it can't find any of the files! The pathnames used by BASH cannot be understood by perl... so does that mean I have to get a new version of perl which was compiled for use with gnu-win32 ? Ugh. SRE mailto:eckert AT netcom DOT com -or- mailto:list_owner AT juno DOT com "The only possible interpretation of any research whatever in the `social sciences' is: some do, some don't." -- Ernest Rutherford - 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".