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Re: HELP! - Please



Ernie answered your questions in detail.
Please follow his advice.

I do not know much about tcl, so I will
prefer not to answer tcl script questions.

Suhaib



----- Original Message ----- 
From: Stewart, Wayne <wayne.stewart@sonosite.com>
To: Stewart, Wayne <wayne.stewart@sonosite.com>; 'Suhaib M. Siddiqi' <Ssiddiqi@InspirePharm.Com>; <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Sent: Friday, April 23, 1999 3:12 PM
Subject: RE: HELP! - Please


> Suhaib,
> 
> With respect to question #3 below (my original problem),
> your suggestions do not appear to make a difference:
> 
> bash$ cmd.exe /c 'dir C:\D'
>  Volume in drive C has no label.
>  Volume Serial Number is 4036-DAAB
> 
>  Directory of C:\D
> 
> 04/23/99  11:38a        <DIR>          .
> 04/23/99  11:38a        <DIR>          ..
>                2 File(s)              0 bytes
>                           1,986,461,696 bytes free
> bash$ mount
> Device           Directory           Type        Flags
> d:               /d                  native      text!=binary
> C:               /                   native      text!=binary
> bash$ cat /tmp/junk
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> echo "Test executing a shell script from cygtclsh80"
> bash$ /tmp/junk
> Test executing a shell script from cygtclsh80
> bash$ cygtclsh80
> % /tmp/junk
> couldn't execute "\tmp\junk": no such file or directory
> % exec /tmp/junk
> couldn't execute "\tmp\junk": no such file or directory
> % exit
> bash$
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Stewart, Wayne 
> > Sent: Friday, April 23, 1999 11:46 AM
> > To: 'Suhaib M. Siddiqi'; Stewart, Wayne; cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
> > Subject: RE: HELP! - Please
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > > bash$ mount -b c: /cb
> > > > Warning: /cb does not exist!
> > > 
> > > Are you trying to mount C: on "cb" ithout creating a cb
> > > directory?  
> > > 
> > > If so this will fail under UNIX too.
> > > 
> > 
> > I know it fails under UNIX, but under Cygwin it
> > just gives a warning - and things appear to work
> > OK afterwards, despite the warning.  If Cygwin
> > requires a directory to exist prior to the mount
> > in order to function properly, then this should
> > be an error (as on UNIX) and not a warning.
> > 
> > So now we have 3 questions:
> > 
> > 1) Do you need a directory to exist before
> >    mounting on the directory (like UNIX), if so,
> >    why just a warning?
> > 
> > 2) If you have a drive mounted twice onto two
> >    different directories (e.g. one with text=binary
> >    and the other with text!=binary), how does the
> >    system decide what tree you're in?  Order of
> >    mount entries in registry?  Always picks the
> >    binary tree?
> > 
> > 3) My original cygtchsh80 problem.  Can anyone
> >    else reproduce it?  (It's simple to try to
> >    reproduce.)  If not, what could be different
> >    in my Cygwin setup?  mounts?  installing on
> >    D: ?  something else?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> >     Wayne
> > 
> 
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