Good ... I will have to work with that Cygpath and see what kind of
results that I get.
I am unsure how this program is going to respond.
I may have to just do the shell escape and execute the invocation of
gentran if the program can not figure out where the location of its
configuration files should be.
Now I see that Cygwin has a C compiler ... I will have to play with this
a little later - I may be able to find a use for this.
What about a Secure Shell client to transfer files and to get a secure
session going, does Cygwin have that ? I see other people's emails
about ssh but am not
sure if this is what I am looking for.
This Cygwin is a great package to work with.
I have been programming in some sort of shell script since 1992.
On 2/6/2014 10:09 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
On 2/6/2014 8:05 PM, Mike Rushton wrote:
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 ?
Well, as I said before, Cygwin really prefers POSIX paths. But, as
you've
found out, non-Cygwin programs won't understand POSIX paths. If you need
to interact with non-Cygwin programs, you'll either want to translate the
paths you send to them back to DOS-style paths with cygpath, set up links
that both Windows and Cygwin will understand without translation, or live
somewhat dangerously and use the path-style you found above. I'm sure
there are other flavors you could find that could also work, at least in
some cases. The cygpath route is the one approach that fully supports
POSIX paths and DOS-style paths.
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