cygwin/clearcase problem

[Richard Ramos]

At the bash prompt I used forward slashes.  At the dos prompt I used
backslashes.

I also tried your suggestion below with no change in results.

Thanks
Rich

Michael Hoffman wrote:

> On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Richard Ramos wrote:
>
> > I'm running a clearcase client on a windows 2000 platform.  I wrote
> > a bash script to move files under clearcase source control.  The
> > script performs the following lines:
> >
> > [SNIP]
> >
> > Created element "blah/blah/file.h" (type "text_file").
> > text_file_delta: Error: Can't create temporary file:  No such file or directory
> > cleartool: Error: Type manager "text_file_delta" failed create_version operation
> > cleartool: Error: Unable to check in "leap/osprims/winnt/os_defs.h".
> >
> > Note the the clearcase element was successfully created.
> >
> > The reason I'm asking this forum is that the command fails in
> > exactly the same way from the bash prompt but it works fine from a
> > DOS command prompt.  I posed the question to Rational and they
> > hadn't heard of Cygwin before and couldn't help (yet).
>
> What are the exact commands you are typing in on the command line? Are
> they really exactly the same or did you change the forward slashes to
> backslashes for command.com/cmd.exe?
>
> See < http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq_4.html#SEC29 > and try using
> `cygpath --windows $i` in lieu of $i.
> --
> Michael Hoffman <hoffmanm@cshl.org>
> Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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