Hallo Smithesh, Am Samstag, 5. Oktober 2002 um 01:34 schriebst du:
> Hi Peter, > Like Mark said cygwin perl is a much better option. I use it quite often. > I think you still can execute active perl or any windows executable on > Cygwin. > Make sure you are escaping '\' by '/' on the directory paths. For e.g., if > you are trying to execute something on your windows at > C:\Sample\pscp.exe. > Then you will do the following on your cygwin prompt > admin@TMLA_SRAMACHAND ~ C:/\Sample/\pscp.exe The problem with ActiveStates Perl is that it knows nothing about Cygwin paths. If you want to read a file '/usr/test/text.txt' with ActiveState Perl you need to translate the paths to Windows syntax (-> 'C:\cygwin\usr\test\text.txt'). There are tools included with Cygwin to help with this (cygpath.exe), but it is a pita. Cygwin Perl is linked against cygwin1.dll and all this translation is done automatically for you. Gerrit -- =^..^= -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
