X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 11:07:30 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Updated [experimental]: tcltk-20060202-1 Message-ID: <20060320160730.GA26892@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 03:58:41PM +0000, Steve Smith wrote: >Hi, upon seeing >http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-02/msg00090.html > >I downloaded the latest complete stable cygwin, after changing the >tcl version to the updated version. I then downloaded the latest >snapshot of cygwin1.dll and installed that (http://cygwin.com/ >snapshots/cygwin1-20060319.dll.bz2). > >The problem has not been fixed...did I not get the installation correct? > >export F=1 >>tclsh >puts [ exec sh -c "echo $F" ] > can't read "F": no such variable You might want to think about how $F is evaluated above. It isn't evaulated by 'sh'. It's evaluated by tclsh. puts [ exec sh -c "echo \$F" ] will work better. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/