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Re: drone and windows NT. Any success stories?
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Marcus G. Daniels |
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Re: drone and windows NT. Any success stories? |
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12 Jul 2000 07:52:18 -0700 |
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>>>>> "PJ" == Paul E Johnson <address@hidden> writes:
PJ> 1. There is a problem about execute permissions because NT doesn't
PJ> work like unix. Basically, windows NT ignores anything I do with
PJ> permissions inside the bash shell. In order to get the file
PJ> "drone" (an expect script) to execute, I have to rename it
PJ> drone.exe.
If the script starts with "#!/bin/sh" it should become executable.
PJ> When the swarm terminal starts up, it uses .bash_login and it
PJ> erases my path and replaces it with /Swarm-2.1.1/bin. What's up
PJ> with that?
Swarm defaults to that so that "Swarm terminal" is likely to mean the same
thing, no matter what system it is run on.
PJ> 4. Now I have no idea how the guy in indiana gets drone to run,
PJ> but after one run it crashes because it can't read from /dev/null.
It might start working if you recompiled your binaries with the gcc
Swarm 2.1.1 compiler (using Cygwin 1.1 DLLs and headers).
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