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Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 15:14:48 -0500
From: David T-G <davidtg-cygwin AT justpickone DOT org>
To: "CygWin Users' List" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Better solution for calling 'net use' from Cygwin Perl?
Message-ID: <20020515201448.GJ9220@justpickone.org>
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Scott, et al --

=2E..and then Scott Prive said...
%=20
% Hello,

Hello!


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% I had a .sh script that called Microsoft's "net use" command to mount dri=
ves under Win2k, and this worked:
% net use 't:' '\\myserver\share'

Makes sense.


%=20
% However I needed to do this in Cygwin Perl so I could leverage an existin=
g set of Perl libraries I have.
%=20
% For the life of me I could correctly execute the "net use" command from P=
erl, because the characters would get escaped or not interpreted correctly.

I take it you mean you *couldn't*, right?


%=20
% The Perl workaround a coworker devised was:
%     my $cmd =3D "net use 't:' '\\";
%     $cmd .=3D "\\storigen1u21\\sfstest'";
%    print $cmd;
%     system $cmd;
%=20
% and this DOES work. This would be the end of story, except we want to und=
erstand what caused the problem in the first place. I suspect it was the br=
ain dead Microsoft command processor getting involved with this system call.

I hate to be picky, but it's worth checking since it certainly ought to
work.  Did you try

  my $cmd =3D "net use 't:' '\\\\storigen1u21\\sfstest'";

in the course of your efforts?


%=20
% Anyone care to elaborate? Thanks,

HTH & HAND


%=20
% Scott


:-D
--=20
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