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From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 21:23:31 -0400
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Subject: Re: Why can't I run perl scripts after cd to /_/d i.e. d:
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In-Reply-To: <F614BF868E0DD411A5A700508B957E0038D074@MSGBOS679NTS.fmr.com>; from Steve.Tolkin@fmr.com on Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 09:18:58PM -0400

It certainly sounds like this is not a cygwin version of perl and so it
does not understand cygwin paths.

cgf

On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 09:18:58PM -0400, Tolkin, Steve wrote:
>The following shows that when I am on d: I cannot run a perl script.  
>I get the error message "No such file or directory".  It seems like it
>cannot find the perl interpreter executable.
>But running a similar bash script does work.
>I changed the value of cygdrive to /_ at one point using mount, and it is
>remembered in my registry with 
>name: cygdrive prefix
>data: "/_".  
>Is this (part of) the problem.
>I changed from /cygdrive because that was so tedious to type each time I
>need to work on another hard disk.
>
>1014/_/d/_mysetup> type bash
>bash is /usr/bin/bash
>1015/_/d/_mysetup> echo > /usr/home/mybin/testbash
>1016/_/d/_mysetup> cat > /usr/home/mybin/testbash
>#!/usr/bin/bash
>echo hello from testbash
>1017/_/d/_mysetup> /usr/home/mybin/testbash
>hello from testbash
>1018/_/d/_mysetup> cat > /usr/home/mybin/testperl
>#!/usr/bin/perl
>print "hello from testperl\n";
>1019/_/d/_mysetup> /usr/home/mybin/testperl
>Can't open perl script "/usr/home/mybin/testperl": No such file or directory
>1020/_/d/_mysetup> ls -l /usr/bin/perl
>-rwxr-xr-x   1 administ Administ    20480 Mar 24 11:37 /usr/bin/perl*
>1021/_/d/_mysetup> ls -l /usr/bin/perl.exe
>-rwxr-xr-x   1 administ Administ    20480 Mar 24 11:37 /usr/bin/perl.exe*
>1022/_/d/_mysetup> ls -l /usr/bin/bash
>-rwxr-xr-x   1 administ Administ   466944 Jun  1 18:50 /usr/bin/bash*
>1023/_/d/_mysetup> ls -l /usr/bin/bash.exe
>-rwxr-xr-x   1 administ Administ   466944 Jun  1 18:50 /usr/bin/bash.exe*
>1024/_/d/_mysetup> mount
>Device              Directory           Type         Flags
>c:\bin              /usr/bin            user         binmode
>c:\lib              /usr/lib            user         binmode
>d:                  /d                  user         textmode
>f:                  /f                  user         textmode
>c:                  /                   user         binmode
>e:                  /e                  user         textmode
>1025/_/d/_mysetup> cd /
>1026/> /usr/home/mybin/testperl
>hello from testperl
>
>Thanks,
>Steve
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