Re: Cygwin Command Line Strangeness

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

--- On Wed, 2014/3/19, 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?
> 
> 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...
> 
> Damian
> 

Octave3.6.4_gcc4.6.2 is a Windows native binary so that it is not considered to 
use with Cygwin environments.

Tatsuro