Re: Changing HOME for PERL

2009-08-28 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Mark J. Reed wrote: On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 10:05 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Have we arrived at the end of the thread yet? You know who else liked Usenet better than mailing lists? HITLER! There. Thread over. :) Actually Hitler preferred the Enigma machine! There - *NOW* the thread's ove

Re: Changing HOME for PERL

2009-08-28 Thread Mark J. Reed
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 10:05 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > Have we arrived at the end of the thread yet? You know who else liked Usenet better than mailing lists? HITLER! There. Thread over. :) -- Mark J. Reed -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: Changing HOME for PERL

2009-08-27 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 08/27/2009 09:49 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Dexter_Michael wrote: I think you hit the nail on the head. Apparently yesterday when I entered the path /usr/bin/perl somewhere, Cygwin decided to create a perl directory and automatically put profile files into the directory it created. .bash_hist

Re: Changing HOME for PERL

2009-08-27 Thread Andrew DeFaria
dexter_mich...@emc.com wrote: I think you hit the nail on the head. Apparently yesterday when I entered the path /usr/bin/perl somewhere, Cygwin decided to create a perl directory and automatically put profile files into the directory it created. .bash_history .bash_profile .bashrc .inputrc W

Re: Changing HOME for PERL

2009-08-27 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 08/27/2009 12:43 PM, Dexter_Michael wrote: Andrew, I think you hit the nail on the head. Apparently yesterday when I entered the path /usr/bin/perl somewhere, Cygwin decided to create a perl directory and automatically put profile files into the directory it created. Ah, of course. This c

RE: Re: Changing HOME for PERL

2009-08-27 Thread Dexter_Michael
by mistake. Thanks, Mike -Original Message- From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Andrew DeFaria Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 11:45 AM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Changing HOME for PERL dexter_mich...@emc.com wrote: > Yes that is Solid

RE: Re: Changing HOME for PERL

2009-08-27 Thread Dexter_Michael
Quoting Windows Style path names does work. -Original Message- From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Mark J. Reed Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 11:39 AM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Cc: and...@defaria.com Subject: Re: Re: Changing HOME for PERL On Thu

Re: Changing HOME for PERL

2009-08-27 Thread Andrew DeFaria
dexter_mich...@emc.com wrote: Yes that is SolidState Perl on the C drive. Ah That'd be ActiveState, not SolidState. /usr/bin is in the front. That makes no sense but perhaps it's a clue. As Jeremy mentioned, which takes each PATH component and checks to see if there's a executable of that

Re: Changing HOME for PERL

2009-08-27 Thread Jeremy Bopp
Mark J. Reed wrote: > On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Dexter Michael wrote: >> $ echo $PATH > > [...] > > Holy giant PATH, Batman! That's like 1800 characters long! Not that > that's necessarily a problem on its own... > > I'm curious about this bit: > > ...:"C:/Program Files/Common Files/EM

Re: Re: Changing HOME for PERL

2009-08-27 Thread Mark J. Reed
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Dexter Michael wrote: > $ echo $PATH [...] Holy giant PATH, Batman! That's like 1800 characters long! Not that that's necessarily a problem on its own... I'm curious about this bit: ...:"C:/Program Files/Common Files/EMC":... Does quoting the Windows-style pa

RE: Re: Changing HOME for PERL

2009-08-27 Thread Dexter_Michael
h or `h h' for help, or `man perldebug' for more help. main::(-e:1): 1 DB<1> q -Original Message- From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Andrew DeFaria Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 11:11 AM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject:

Re: Changing HOME for PERL

2009-08-27 Thread Jeremy Bopp
dexter_mich...@emc.com wrote: > It seems my Cygwin has attached itself to the PERL on my C drive and not > the cygwin Perl. How do I change that? Also debugger seemed to work > too. > > dex...@usendexteml1c /usr/bin > $ which perl > /cygdrive/c/PERL/BIN/perl > > dex...@usendexteml1c /usr/bin >

Re: Changing HOME for PERL

2009-08-27 Thread Andrew DeFaria
dexter_mich...@emc.com wrote: Hi Andrew, It seems my Cygwin has attached itself to the PERL on my C drive and not the cygwin Perl. How do I change that? Also debugger seemed to work too. dex...@usendexteml1c /usr/bin $ which perl /cygdrive/c/PERL/BIN/perl dex...@usendexteml1c /usr/bin $ whi

RE: Re: Changing HOME for PERL

2009-08-27 Thread Dexter_Michael
mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Andrew DeFaria Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 10:53 AM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Changing HOME for PERL dexter_mich...@emc.com wrote: > Before I go and end this thread can you tell me if the Perl.exe I have > in Cygwin looks correct? > &g

RE: Changing HOME for PERL

2009-08-27 Thread Dexter_Michael
Ok Jeremy, Thanks for the information. Mike -Original Message- From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Jeremy Bopp Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 10:53 AM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Changing HOME for PERL dexter_mich...@emc.com wrote

Re: Changing HOME for PERL

2009-08-27 Thread Andrew DeFaria
dexter_mich...@emc.com wrote: Before I go and end this thread can you tell me if the Perl.exe I have in Cygwin looks correct? I can cd /usr/bin and the Perl there is: dex...@usendexteml1c /usr/bin $ ls -la Perl.exe -rwxrwxrw-+ 1 dextem mkgroup-l-d 34304 Jul 19 2007 Perl.exe I am not seeing th

Re: Changing HOME for PERL

2009-08-27 Thread Jeremy Bopp
dexter_mich...@emc.com wrote: > Before I go and end this thread can you tell me if the Perl.exe I have > in Cygwin looks correct? > > I can cd /usr/bin > and the Perl there is: > > dex...@usendexteml1c /usr/bin > $ ls -la Perl.exe > -rwxrwxrw-+ 1 dextem mkgroup-l-d 34304 Jul 19 2007 Perl.exe >

RE: Changing HOME for PERL

2009-08-27 Thread Dexter_Michael
al Message- From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Jeremy Bopp Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 10:27 AM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Changing HOME for PERL dexter_mich...@emc.com wrote: > Also the command od -c test1-mike.pl, shows \n ONLY throug

Re: Changing HOME for PERL

2009-08-27 Thread Jeremy Bopp
dexter_mich...@emc.com wrote: > Also the command od -c test1-mike.pl, shows \n ONLY throughout the file > excepts a couple sots near the end of the file. Do I need to worry > about those couple spots \n\n doubles appears. No, you don't need to worry about \n\n sequences. They just indicate that

Re: Changing HOME for PERL

2009-08-27 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 08/27/2009 09:04 AM, dexter_mich...@emc.com wrote: Also the command od -c test1-mike.pl, shows \n ONLY throughout the file excepts a couple sots near the end of the file. Do I need to worry about those couple spots \n\n doubles appears. No. Now when I run the file I am getting same e

RE: Changing HOME for PERL

2009-08-27 Thread Dexter_Michael
to:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Jeremy Bopp Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 5:35 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Changing HOME for PERL Please make sure to reply to the list so that others can benefit from what we discover. We can take this off list if the moderators decide t

Re: Changing HOME for PERL

2009-08-26 Thread Jeremy Bopp
Please make sure to reply to the list so that others can benefit from what we discover. We can take this off list if the moderators decide this is not the appropriate forum for our discussion. dexter_mich...@emc.com wrote: > Hi Jeremy, > > Thank you - I see I should elabore and include my error

RE: Changing HOME for PERL

2009-08-26 Thread Dexter_Michael
...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Larry Hall (Cygwin) Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 4:04 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Changing HOME for PERL On 08/26/2009 03:30 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: >> I installed Cygwin yesterday and when I run it and look at "pwd" my path >> is set to: /c

Re: Changing HOME for PERL

2009-08-26 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 08/26/2009 03:30 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: I installed Cygwin yesterday and when I run it and look at "pwd" my path is set to: /cygdrive/h I read the FAQ and when I type "set HOME" from a Windows CLI, it is set to: HOME=H:\ I am using Cygwin for PERL. I just took a PERL course and in class Cy

Re: Changing HOME for PERL

2009-08-26 Thread Jeremy Bopp
dexter_mich...@emc.com wrote: > Hello, > > I installed Cygwin yesterday and when I run it and look at "pwd" my path > is set to: /cygdrive/h > > I read the FAQ and when I type "set HOME" from a Windows CLI, it is set > to: > HOME=H:\ > > I am using Cygwin for PERL. > > I just took a PERL co

Re: Changing HOME for PERL

2009-08-26 Thread Andy Koppe
> I installed Cygwin yesterday and when I run it and look at "pwd" my path > is set to:   /cygdrive/h > > I read the FAQ and when I type "set HOME" from a Windows CLI, it is set > to: > HOME=H:\ > > I am using Cygwin for PERL. > > I just took a PERL course and in class Cygwin was configured for: >

Changing HOME for PERL

2009-08-26 Thread Dexter_Michael
Hello, I installed Cygwin yesterday and when I run it and look at "pwd" my path is set to: /cygdrive/h I read the FAQ and when I type "set HOME" from a Windows CLI, it is set to: HOME=H:\ I am using Cygwin for PERL. I just took a PERL course and in class Cygwin was configured for: /usr/bin/