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Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 11:47:42 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
To: "Ling F. Zhang" <lingfengz AT yahoo DOT com>
cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: cygwin and the rest of the Windows 
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On Sun, 22 Jun 2003, Ling F. Zhang wrote:

> Hi again:
>
> > you might be missing the login environment, so you
> > might wish to create a
> > perl.bat file that does a "c:\cygwin\bin\bash
> > --login /usr/bin/perl %1 %2
> > %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9" and use that instead (beware
> > of directory changes).
> when I run this in cygwin:
> bash --login perl, I get the error:
> /usr/bin/perl: No such file or directory
> simiarly if I run the perl.bat as your suggested, I
> get similar error claiming that /usr/bin/perl is not
> found...okay, I am confused here...
>
> > Alternatively, if you want to use the #! line, you
> > could associate .pl
> > files with "c:\cygwin\bin\bash -c"
> so I did...and (in DOS) I try this:
> \cygwin\bin\bash -c printenv.pl
> /usr/bin/perl: line 1: printenv.pl: command not found
> (my first line is the usual "#!/usr/bin/perl")
>
> you told me to be aware of path changes in the two
> system...now I am confused...which one should I use?

Try "\cygwin\bin\bash -c ./printenv.pl".  More later.
	Igor
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