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From: The One <i51359 AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: Not sure what the problem is...
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dah, thanks brian
it's missing sh.exe on the system.

--- Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net> wrote:

> The One wrote:
> 
> > Well, I'm runing the program on computer that does
> not
> > have cygwin installed.  I just put a copy of the
> > cygwin1.dll in the windows path.
> 
> How do you expect this to work if you don't have
> Cygwin installed?  At
> the very least you'll need /bin/sh and /bin/ls,
> since system("foo") just
> calls '/bin/sh -c "foo"'.  Have you checked the
> return value of
> system()?  Always check return values.
> 
> > I couldn't get it to recognize /cygdrive/c/mydir
> or
> > /c/mydir since cygwin is not installed on the
> > computer.  I tried adding the mount v2 info in the
> > registry but that didn't work.  I would appreciate
> > very much if you can help me to get it to
> recognize
> > posix path.
> 
> /cygdrive is the default, so it shouldn't matter
> that there is no mount
> table.  (By the way, always use mount and umount
> instead of manipulating
> the registry directly.)  I don't think posix vs.
> win32 paths is actually
> the problem here, and "c:/mydir" ought to work for
> what you're trying to
> do... it's just not a great habit to get into.
> 
> Brian
> 
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