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Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 10:45:36 -0500
To: "ROHIT X SINGH" <rxsingh AT us DOT ibm DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: "no such file or directory" using 'spawn' on EXPECT
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At 10:41 AM 12/28/2001, ROHIT X SINGH wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I have installed cygwin(with expect package) on a number of Windows 2000
>systems, and on all the systems EXCEPT ONE, I am able to spawn "cmd.exe"
>using the following command:
>
>C:\>expect
>expect1.1> spawn "C:\\winnt\\system32\\cmd.exe" /c echo PLEASEECHO
>spawn C:\winnt\system32\cmd.exe /c echo PLEASEECHO
>2852
>expect1.2>
>(It works as expected above)
>
>However, on the system which is unable to spawn it, I get the following :
>
>C:\>expect
>expect1.1> spawn "C:\\winnt\\system32\\cmd.exe" /c echo PLEASEECHO
>spawn C:\winnt\system32\cmd.exe /c echo PLEASEECHO
>couldn't execute "C:\winnt\system32\cmd.exe": no such file or directory
>     while executing
>"spawn "C:\\winnt\\system32\\cmd.exe" /c echo PLEASEECHO"
>expect1.2>
>(I get an error as shown above)
>
>I have checked that cmd.exe does indeed exist at C:\winnt\system32\cmd.exe.
>I am using expect version 5.26 in all places.
>I am facing this problem on the latest installtion that I did off a nasa
>mirror yesterday. I tried reinstalling another mirror but faced the same
>problem.
>
>Other information: I had initially installed cygwin on D: drive, but later
>deleted it from D: drive, and reinstalled on C: drive. Could this be a
>cause of this error ? My cygwin PATH points to C:\cygwin\bin
>
>'which sh' points to '/usr/bin/sh'
>
>  I have checked the existence of /bin/sh on all systems.
>
>PLEASE HELP! :-)



Perhaps the output of 'cygcheck -s -r -v' would be of some help (and 
maybe not! ;-) )


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