Re: Cygwin Command Line Strangeness

[Marco Atzeri]

On 18/03/2014 19:00, Damian Harty wrote:
> O Learned Denizens,
>
> 1) My machine:
>
> Windows 7 64 Bit, Octave3.6.4_gcc4.6.2_20130408.
>
> Using Cygwin NT-6.1-WOW64, I can do the following:
>
>      echo 'printf ("    Octave: Hello, World!\n")'  > test_me.m
>      /cygdrive/c/Octave/Octave3.6.4_gcc4.6.2/bin/octave.exe -q test_me.m 2> 
> test_me.log
>
> Hopefully you can see it makes a little file called "test_me" and dutifully runs it to 
> produce a "hello world" message.
>
> No problem.
>
>
> 2) Not my machine:
>
> Windows 7 64 Bit, Octave3.6.4_gcc4.6.2, Cygwin_NT-6.1.
>
> Same deal, except that when I try to run octave as above, it declares the 
> test_me.m doesn't exist:
>
> C:\Users\gaarama\test_me.m could not be found
>
> That's entirely accurate. The file isn't there. When I call Octave from the 
> command line, I expect any file not given an absolute path to be searched for 
> in the local directory - which it plainly is on my machine. Any suggestions as 
> to why it might work as advertised on my machine but not his?

have you looked where was created the file ?

> Could there be some flag I set when I first installed Octave on my machine 
> (less than a year ago) that I've forgotten? Or something?
>
> I'm dreading the idea that it's a Cygwin setup issue; I had a very bad 
> experience on their mailing list, unlike you lovely chaps...

asking for cygwin specific here is also not a good idea ;-)


> Damian

probably the HOME or PATH is not defined as you think.


Marco