From: earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com (Earnie Boyd) Subject: Re: problem with batch files. 16 Jan 1998 14:37:55 -0800 Message-ID: <19980115130611.20646.qmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain To: olc AT tele DOT ucl DOT ac DOT be Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Make certain that your file doesn't contain the \r\n combination. It should only contain the \n combination. Also, your mounts need to be text=binary. Look at the mail archives for all kinds of banter on this subject. >Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 21:58:22 +0100 >From: Olivier Cuisenaire >To: "gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com" >Subject: problem with batch files. > >When I try to this very simple file (named coco): > >#!/bin/sh ># >ls >echo hello > >I receive, after the result of the ls command, the following error: > >coco: o: command not found > >The problem being that it seems to delete the first three characters of the >last line leaving only "o hello". This diagnosis is confirmed by the fact >inserting any three characters at the beginning of this line will solve the >problem, while inserting one or two characters give the errors "ho: command >not found" and "cho: command not found" respectively. > >This is very discturbing when using more complex batch files (I actually >would like to use the configure file to install lesstif) > >Is this a known bug for which a patch exists ? (I'm currently using >sh-2.01, sergey's patch) > >Thanks. > >Olivier > >-- Olivier Cuisenaire, Ph. D. student -- > > " Whenever you find yourself on the side of the > majority, it is time to pause and reflect. " > > Mark Twain >- >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". > - \\||// ---o0O0--Earnie--0O0o---- -earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com- ------ooo0O--O0ooo------- Check out these great gnu-win32 related sites: ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/gnu-win32/latest/ (ftp site) http://www.cygnus.com/pubs/gnupro/ (Comercial Page) http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32/ (Project Page) http://www.cygnus.com/ml/gnu-win32 (Mail Archives) http://www.itribe.net/virtunix/winhelp-man-pages/ (HTML Man Pages) http://www.lexa.ru/sos (Sergey Okhapkin) ftp://www.lexa.ru/pub/domestic/sos/ (Sergey's ftp site) http://www.fu.is.saga-u.ac.jp/~colin/gcc.html (Colin Peters) http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/software/gnu-win32/ (Mumit Khan) http://gnu-win32.paranoia.ru (Chuck Bogorad's ports) ftp://ftp.deninc.com/pub (Den Internet Services - US mirror and ports) ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - 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".