RE: cygpath question - Command Prompt Here

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Robert Mark Bram wrote:

> grep: /home/Robert: No such file or directory
> grep: Mark: No such file or directory
> grep: Bram/.bashrc: No such file or directory

Don't know about the rest of the script, but looks like someone forgot his
quoting...  Naughty, naughty... :-)
	Igor

On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Robert Mark Bram wrote:

> Howdy all!
>
> Command Prompt Here
> ==========================
>
> I got CommandPromptHere from this url:
> http://koeln.convey.de/cywgin/CygwinPromptHere/
>
> I then followed these steps:
> $ tar xvzf CygwinPromptHere-20020528.tar.gz
> $ cd CygwinPromptHere
> $ ./install
>
> Below is the result of my install. I am no quite sure what is going on, but
> I think it is failing to find regtool entries.. Is this because I am running
> Win XP?
>
> For example, in my registry I have:
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/
> but not
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/native
>
> Any one used this program for Windows XP and got it working?
>
> Rob
> :)
>
>
> SCREEN DUMP START ================================
> This will install a "Cygwin Prompt Here" shell extension the will act like
> Microsoft's "Command Prompt Here" (DosHere) Power Toy. This extension was
> designed to insulate you from cygwin upgrades by not modifying any of the
> distributed files nor making any assumptions about them except for the
> existence of certain tools (regtool, cygpath, cut, cat, grep, sed and, of
> course bash).
>
> This 'install' will adapt to the version of Windows that you are using and
> locate your cygwin root directory. It will modify the registry entries for
> Drives and Directories under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, add a cygwin_indir.bat file
> in
> your cygwin root directory and append a few lines to your .bashrc.
>
> The changes to your .bashrc will only be executed if you are running under
> cygwin (I share my .bashrc with my Unix box.)
>
> Would you like to continue? [y/n]
> y
>
> Unknown key prefix.  Valid prefixes are:
>         root
>         HKCR
>         HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
>         config
>         HKCC
>         HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG
>         user
>         HKCU
>         HKEY_CURRENT_USER
>         machine
>         HKLM
>         HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
>         users
>         HKU
>         HKEY_USERS
> cygpath: can't convert empty path
> cygpath: can't convert empty path
> grep: /home/Robert: No such file or directory
> grep: Mark: No such file or directory
> grep: Bram/.bashrc: No such file or directory
> [: 0: unknown operand
> Unknown key prefix.  Valid prefixes are:
>         root
>         HKCR
>         HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
>         config
>         HKCC
>         HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG
>         user
>         HKCU
>         HKEY_CURRENT_USER
>         machine
>         HKLM
>         HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
>         users
>         HKU
>         HKEY_USERS
> Access is denied.
> A copy of the existing file '/cygwin_indir.bat' has been saved as:
> /cygwin_indir.20030125.bat.
>
> The installation is completed. Sometimes after running this install Windows
> will give an "Access denied..." message when trying to start the shell.
> If this occurs, updating the timestamp on the batch file used to start
> the shell ('\cygwin.bat' or
> '\cygwin_indir.bat') usually fixes the problem.
>
> Enjoy,
> Glen Coakley
>
> SCREEN DUMP END ================================

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