Greetings, Mike Rushton! Please don't http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU
> What would you say to this ? > I have to use an EDI translator - it runs under windows/dos and had unix > versions If it have UNIX version, perhaps, a Cygwin package for it exists, or it can be compiled. > 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 As one of possible solutions: /cygdrive/c/gentran61SA/lftran "$( cygpath -lw /cygdrive/c/gentran61sa/data/EDN )" -id -cp "$( cygpath -lw /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 ? "Better" in this case is subjective. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@yandex.ru) 07.02.2014, <16:50> Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple