OK. I have got cygwin, and I can access windows directories, and this looks very possible. I can download a lot of packages and they work. This could get habit forming.
However, how does one install software that doesn't appear in the menus when you run setup.exe? I need to install imagemagick's command line utilities, but I did not see imagemagick in the list of available programs. Thanks, Joel On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 08:47:39PM +0200, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: > On Sat, 2003-07-12 at 16:04, Joel Hammer wrote: > > What software are you referring to? > > > > I did download cygwin from somewhere. It gave me a unix like environment > > in windows but the root directory it supplied would not let me access > > the other directories on the windows box. > > It was cygwin I referred to. I have had no trouble accessing any > directories at all, including those from SAMBA or other Windows boxes. > It is just that the base part of the path is different. But, if you > check the environment at the start of the script, you can determine if > it is windows or unix and set the base to the appropriate thing. Still > one script that runs on both environments. In fact, I have found very > little I could not do this way. I really detested the need to make it > work in command.exe. > > Another cross platform script language is Tcl/Tk. This has the added > advantage of letting you add a platform independent GUI. There are nice > tools for working with images, like the Img extension. For our 'real' > scripts, this is what we use. There is even a netscape/explorer plugin > so you can embed the script in a web page and let it execute in a > browser. I have not used this, but I can see the use of such a thing. > > > > > > Joel > > > > On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 12:05:38PM +0200, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: > > > Make life simple. Go to the Gnu site and download the stuff for Windows. > > > There is a small exe that you install, and it manages installing the > > > rest. You will get a nice shell and many Unix commands into the bargain. > > > Then, your scripting environment will be the same. Run the same scripts > > > on Linux and Windows. I do this and am happy with the setup. If you are > > > using ImageMagik, you can install the winders version and be complete. > > > > > > On Sat, 2003-07-12 at 04:23, Joel Hammer wrote: > > > > At work, I am going to have a digital camera tethered to a linux box > > > > via usb. This linux box will connect directly via an ethernet connection > > > > to a windows 2000 box in another room, which will be the major player in > > > > image processing and storage. I could change this I suppose, and have the > > > > linux box tethered to the camera as the major player, but I am worried > > > > about the slow down due to the cable connection. > > > > > > > > I am going to need to run a number of repetitive image editing commands > > > > via scripts on the captured images, after they are sent to the windows > > > > 2000 box. For example, they need to be labelled, commented, turned upside > > > > down (Our camera is mounted upside down.), and resized, at least. I > > > > could do all this before they are sent, but the W2K computer is going to > > > > be capturing images, too, and they will need to be edited in a similar > > > > fashion. > > > > > > > > I will be using image magick's collection of command line programs to > > > > accomplish this. There are versions of image magick for W2K as well as > > > > for linux. > > > > > > > > Now, since I know nothing of scripting in W2K but a lot about scripting in > > > > linux, would it be possible to mount the appropriate W2K directories > > > > on the linux box, and run the editing commands in linux, even though > > > > the files are stored on the W2K box? It sounds quite reasonable, but, > > > > I have never tried this, I don't use windows, and would like to know if > > > > this would in fact be workable. > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > > Joel > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Linux-users mailing list > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> > > > > http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Linux-users mailing list > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > > _______________________________________________ > > Linux-users mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
