Re: A tool for executing Windows and DOS programs from bash

["Wei Ku" <weiku at UTKUX1 dot UTK dot EDU>]

Sound very interesting. Would you please put it on the web or mail a copy to
me ?

I would suggest you not to post it to the mailing list unless it is highly
demanded since there are some people are unhappy to receive a large mail
which is not necessary to them.

Sincerely,
Wei Ku

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-----Original Message-----
From: Pete Jordan <pete@horus.cix.co.uk>
To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com <gnu-win32@cygnus.com>
Date: Friday, August 08, 1997 4:52 PM
Subject: A tool for executing Windows and DOS programs from bash



>I've written a little launch program that translates pathnames from
>GNU-Win32 format to Windows format so I can (for example) launch Word from
>bash by typing:
>
> $word foo.doc
>or:
> $word /usr/baz.doc
>
>The way it works is you create a symlink ("word") to my program
>(debash.exe) and add a line in an "/etc/debash" file that maps "word" onto
>the actual location of the target program and describes something of the
>sort of parameters that program requires.
>
>The path portion of each filename parameter is then matched against the
>mount table (with the path defaulting to `pwd`) and appropriate
>substitutions are made before using spawnvp() to launch the target app.
>
>It's a bit of a kludge ATM, but it does what I want so...
>
>If anyone is interested, I can make it available - GPLed of course :)
>
>Pete Jordan
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