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Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2002 11:03:30 +0200
From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gp AT familiehaase DOT de>
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To: Smithesh Ramachandran <smithesh AT ticketmaster DOT com>
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Subject: Re: executing perl from command line (cygwin)
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Hallo Smithesh,

Am Samstag, 5. Oktober 2002 um 01:34 schriebst du:

> Hi Peter,
> Like Mark said cygwin perl is a much better option. I use it quite often.

> I think you still can execute active perl  or any windows executable on
> Cygwin. 

> Make sure you are escaping '\' by '/'  on the directory paths. For e.g.,  if
> you are trying to execute something on your windows at
> C:\Sample\pscp.exe.

> Then you will do the following on your cygwin prompt
> admin AT TMLA_SRAMACHAND ~ C:/\Sample/\pscp.exe

The problem with ActiveStates Perl is that it knows nothing about
Cygwin paths.  If you want to read a file '/usr/test/text.txt' with
ActiveState Perl you need to translate the paths to Windows syntax
(-> 'C:\cygwin\usr\test\text.txt').
There are tools included with Cygwin to help with this (cygpath.exe),
but it is a pita.  Cygwin Perl is linked against cygwin1.dll and all
this translation is done automatically for you.


Gerrit
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