Re: Newbie Cygdrive questions

[Mike Rushton <mrushton at ptd dot net>]

I see.


What would you say to this ?

I have to use an EDI translator - it runs under windows/dos and had unix 
versions

I was trying this ... but the program needed to see the path of a config 
file ... after the -cp switch.

/cygdrive/c/gentran61SA/lftran /cygdrive/c/gentran61sa/data/EDN -id -cp /cygdrive/c/Gentran61SA


It gave me errors can not open file /cygdrive/c/Gentran61SA\ediprim.cfg.  It was like the program could not figure out
what style of paths to use.

I changed it to :  (escape out of bash and run this code)

! c:/gentran61SA/lftran c:/gentran61sa/data/EDN -id -cp c:/Gentran61SA

and it worked perfectly.    Is there a better way to do this ?








On 2/6/2014 7:39 PM, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, mrushton!
>
> > Ok ... I am converting my scripts and making progress.
> > But I have a question.
> > My old shell software would let me have a path as :
> > X:/INBOUND/CWSCRIPTS/myscript.sh
>
> > To access this shared X drive under Cygwin it seems I have to do this :
> > /cygdrive/X/INBOUND/CWSCRIPTS/myscript.sh
>
> > Is this correct ?  Is there a better way ?
> > And C: seems to be /cygdrive/C/
> The true answer is - "depends"...
> If you do not need interoperation between Cygwin and pure Windows stuff, you
> could use either scheme, but the latter is preferred under Cygwin banner.
> In case you DO need to work with Windows tools, the former scheme would
> satisfy both worlds. (Windows does not see a difference betwen \ and / as
> directory separators on the very low level, but this matters for a lot of
> Cygwin tools.)
>
>
> --
> WBR,
> Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 07.02.2014, <04:33>
>
> Sorry for my terrible english...


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