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From: Matt Armstrong <matt@lickey.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [ANN] cyg-wrapper.sh
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 08:59:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87adjd3k45.fsf@squeaker.lickey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021206013757.GA976927@ORLYN> (Luc Hermitte's message of "Fri, 6 Dec 2002 02:37:57 +0100")

Luc Hermitte <hermitte@free.fr> writes:

> cyg-wrapper v2.2 has been uploaded on my web site:
>     http://hermitte.free.fr/cygwin/#Win32
>     http://hermitte.free.fr/cygwin/cyg-wrapper.sh
>
> cyg-wrapper is a shell script that helps to run, from cygwin,
> command-line applications that have been compiled for windows only ; ie:
> applications un-aware and independant of the cygwin layer.[1] 
>
> cyg-wrapper converts pathname arguments, passed to win32 programs, from
> the written form (unix/dos/windows ; relative or absolute) to the DOS
> (short [2] ; and absolute) form that win32 command-line programs
> understand.

Luc, you might consider adding an option to unset the PWD environment
variable (or convert it to a Windows path).

The Perforce (http://www.perforce.com/) p4.exe will barf if PWD is
still set to a cygwin path.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-12-10 16:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-12-05 19:33 Luc Hermitte
2002-12-07 23:43 ` Soren A
2002-12-08 11:49   ` [ANN] cyg-wrapper.sh Luc Hermitte
2002-12-09 15:44     ` Soren A
2002-12-10  8:59 ` Matt Armstrong [this message]
2002-12-12 18:59   ` Luc Hermitte
2002-12-16 19:04     ` Matt Armstrong
2002-12-17  8:33       ` Luc Hermitte

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