From: mh AT mike DOT franken DOT de (Michael Hirmke)
Subject: Re: Problems with b19.1
3 Apr 1998 16:20:09 -0800
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Hi Jon,

>I'm having problems with b19.1 and its interaction with cmd. I used
>(under b18 and b17) to be able to do things like

DOS>>sh foo

>where foo is a shell script on the %PATH% defined in the system
>environment. This no longer works. It gives the error message foo:
>Can't open foo, which I think is sh saying it can't find foo.I also
>used to be able to do things like

Perhaps shebang (#!) in foo is set to an incorrect shell path ?
Or perhaps your DOS path does not contain the path to foo ?
I only get this error message, if my DOS path does not contain my shell
script directory.

>
>which foo.bat
>
>from within a shell script. Now the which program (not part of
>gnu-win32) no longer finds foo.bat. I suspect sh is not passing it the
>correct path variable.

Uhm, did you try "type foo.bat" instead ?

Bye.
Michael.
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