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Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 01:05:46 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Ling F. Zhang" <lingfengz AT yahoo DOT com>
Reply-To: lingfengz AT yahoo DOT com
Subject: Re: cygwin and the rest of the Windows 
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0306231908420.22307-100000@slinky.cs.nyu.edu>
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well, i still got the same error from the win32
apache...
forget it, i am switch to apache on cygwin...write
some script using perl and shell...maybe later, i will
just rewrite them in c and put them in nice
executables for the windows server...

--- Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu> wrote:
> Matthew,
> 
> FYI, I've been able to associate the following with
> the .pl extension (in
> Explorer) and have it work:
> 
> c:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c '"`/bin/cygpath -u "%1"`"'
> 
> There was no need for extra batch files or anything
> else.  The above also
> worked when the path contained spaces, but I haven't
> tested it
> extensively.
> 
> As for the apache problem, try adding "." to the
> PATH (e.g., use
> 
> c:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c 'PATH="$PATH:."
> "`/bin/cygpath -u "%1"`"'
> 
> or something like that - again, beware of spaces). 
> You might also want to
> pass the -x flag to bash...
> 	Igor
> 
> On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Ling F. Zhang wrote:
> 
> > Just based on what I have learned so far...I
> figure
> > out a more geniune way of how this works:
> > in cygwin, I made a shell script quo that goes
> like:
> > #!/usr/bin/bash
> > # this program takes user input (STDIN) and put a
> > quote around it...
> > # why do I have to do this? well, I can't figure
> out a
> > way in dos batch that would do the same...since
> using
> > echo autometically adds a "\n" at the end...
> > printf "\"";
> > while read LINE
> > do
> >   printf "$LINE";
> > done
> > printf "\"";
> >
> > and I wrote something called "bashwin.bat" that
> goes
> > like:
> >
> > @echo off
> > REM this program is used so that executable in
> cygwin
> > written in shell or perl or whatever, can be
> executed
> > in Windows command
> > REM just associate this file in explorer with
> whatever
> > you want to run (e.g. .pl, .sh)
> > cygpath -u %1 | bash -c "quo" > tmp
> > bash --loging < tmp
> > del tmp
> >
> > so now, at command prompt, I can type printenv.pl
> or
> > test.sh and they will execute....as if they were
> in
> > cygwin, with POSIX path of course...
> >
> > the problem is, they still won't work as cgi
> script...
> > I got a 500 error (or 500 somthing..) and apache
> > error.log (apache 2.x for win32) reads like:
> > [Mon Jun 23 03:41:45 2003] [error] [client
> 127.0.0.1]
> > (720003)The system cannot find the path specified.
>  :
> > couldn't create child process: 720003: printenv.pl
> > [Mon Jun 23 03:41:45 2003] [error] [client
> 127.0.0.1]
> > (720003)The system cannot find the path specified.
>  :
> > couldn't spawn child process: C:/Program
> Files/Apache
> > Group/Apache2/cgi-bin/printenv.pl
> > [Mon Jun 23 03:43:31 2003] [error] [client
> 127.0.0.1]
> > (720003)The system cannot find the path specified.
>  :
> > couldn't create child process: 720003: test.sh
> > [Mon Jun 23 03:43:31 2003] [error] [client
> 127.0.0.1]
> > (720003)The system cannot find the path specified.
>  :
> > couldn't spawn child process: C:/Program
> Files/Apache
> > Group/Apache2/cgi-bin/test.sh
> >
> > now...that I think has to do with the mixed up of
> > windows path and cygwin path...anyone can figure
> out
> > how to do this?
> 
> -- 
> 				http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/
>       |\      _,,,---,,_		pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu
> ZZZzz /,`.-'`'    -.  ;-;;,_		igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com
>      |,4-  ) )-,_. ,\ (  `'-'		Igor Pechtchanski,
> Ph.D.
>     '---''(_/--'  `-'\_) fL	a.k.a
> JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-.  Meow!
> 
> "I have since come to realize that being between
> your mentor and his route
> to the bathroom is a major career booster."  --
> Patrick Naughton
> 


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