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From: "Gary Spivey" <spivey AT ieee DOT org>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Newbie: Proper?? method for running windows apps
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 20:32:36 -0700
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Firstly, I am loving this whole cygwin idea. It is making my life a lot
easier as I continue waiting for our IT people to come up with a way for me
to VPN from linux (we have some stupid Lucent brick thing that only works
with its own windows client - no FreeSwan).

Anyway,

  I would like to be able to port my entire perl based app from windows to
linux to Solaris. The problem I am having is that the tools in windows exist
outside of the cygwin directories, but the perl programs and files that are
being operated on exist within the cygwin directories. So, I get a command
like this ...

link_to_windows_command   -optiona -optionb /home/file/inside/cygwin

Which results in a file not found from the windows executable. This appears
to be happening because the windows command is running in the normal windows
filesystem and can't find it.

Now it seems that this problem should have a rather simple solution, but I
can't seem to find it. I don't know if I am suppose to be moving stuff out
to windows and linking from cygwin, or doing something with the mounts, ...
The problem would be completely solved if windows and cygwin shared the same
paths, but y'all don't seem to like that.

I can't seem to find solutions in the User's Manual or searching, but that
is likely because I am overwhelmed by all of this at the moment.

Any help?

Cheers,
Gary
spivey AT ieee DOT org


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