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RE: gvimdiff fails on network drive


Gvim isnt linked to cygwin1.dll so it wont see cygwin mount points. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shing-Fat Fred Ma [mailto:fma@doe.carleton.ca]
> Sent: 25 October 2002 19:25
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: gvimdiff fails on network drive
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm using cygwin-1.3.12-4 on WinME.  I'm
> using gvim 6.0 to diff a pair of files residing
> on a mounted network drive i.e. /SomeUser
> is a mount pointing to \\RemoteSunBox\SomeUser.
> Read/write access to /SomeUser is no problem.
> Using "gvim -d" on localfiles is no problem.
> But using "gvim -d" on files residing on /SomeUser
> generates the error E97 (can't create diff files).
> 
> I thought it might be a path name problem,
> though both invocations would use unix
> style path names.  But just to see, I tried
> putting this in _vimrc (courtesy Machitani-san):
> 
> > if has("unix")
> >   set shell=/bin/bash
> > elseif has("win32")
> > " set shell=c:/cygwin/bin/bash
> >   set shell=c:\\cygwin\\bin\\bash.exe
> >   set shellcmdflag=-c
> >   set shellpipe=2>&1\|\ tee
> >   set shellslash
> > endif
> 
> But the problem persisted.  Just as a note,
> my gvim is invoked by the bash function
> 
> {
>     ( unset SHELL;
>     /c/Program\ Files/vim/vim60/gvim $* ) &
> }
> 
> because gvim's diff *never* worked prior
> to the "unset SHELL".
> 
> Thanks for any suggestions.
> 
> Fred
> 
> -------------------------------------------
> Fred Ma
> Department of Electronics
> Carleton University, Mackenzie Building
> 1125 Colonel By Drive
> Ottawa, Ontario
> Canada     K1S 5B6
> fma@doe.carleton.ca
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