From: towb AT gmx DOT net (Tobias Weber)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: cat.exe: standard output: Invalid argument (EINVAL) ??
Date: 18 Apr 1999 22:07:55 GMT
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On Sun, 18 Apr 1999 14:16:39 +0300 (IDT), Eli Zaretskii
<eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:

>> I've got a perl wich does `cat $fn` (backticks!) and works perfectly
>> well on linux.
>> On w95 all I get is
>>  cat.exe: standard output: Invalid argument (EINVAL)
>If you invoked the above command from the ported Bash, then the most
>probable reason is that your TMPDIR variable in the environment is not
>defined or points to an invalid directory.  Bash needs that because
>`command` expansion goes through a temporary file.

It was plain DOS7 command.com, but I just tried bash and it's the same
error. I think the backtick expansion is done by perl..what exactly
does the message mean, anyway?!

>This is explained in the DJGPP FAQ list, section 6.11, btw.

Well, I read the FAQ, but not that section 'cause I didn't use bash..

btw everything works when I replace `cat $fn` with `type $fn` from old
command.com (but type is sth completely different on linux, where I
want to run the script, too) ..so it may have to do with the way cat
reads/writes data...

regards,
  Tobias Weber