From: UnixOS2 Archive To: "UnixOS2 Archive" Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2003 14:11:30 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [UnixOS2_Archive] No. 189 ************************************************** Saturday 06 September 2003 Number 189 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 Re: Building GNU Aspell 0.50.3 : Alex Newman" 2 Re: Building GNU Aspell 0.50.3 : Dave and Natalie" 3 Re: Building GNU Aspell 0.50.3 : Lewis G Rosenthal **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2003 11:16:49 +1000 (EST) From: "Alex Newman" Subject: Re: Building GNU Aspell 0.50.3 On Sat, 06 Sep 2003 19:48:16 -0400, Henry Sobotka wrote: > Lewis G Rosenthal wrote: > > > > Also, for some reason, it looks as though c:\emx\bin is getting > > concatenated to c:\emin. Any thoughts? > > The \b is being interpreted as a backspace, deleting the 'x'? My workaround for that is the set path=x/bin;x/usr/bin;, etc., in a rexx script that starts sh (or ksh, or whatever). Or put the same path into the DragText environment page in the sh object's settings notebook (if you have a recent DragText installed, that is ;), which ammounts to the same thing. Works like a charm. Alex. **= Email 2 ==========================** Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2003 18:09:24 -0800 From: "Dave and Natalie" Subject: Re: Building GNU Aspell 0.50.3 On Sun, 07 Sep 2003 20:08:33 -0400, Lewis G Rosenthal wrote: >>>>Also, for some reason, it looks as though c:\emx\bin is getting >>>>concatenated to c:\emin. Any thoughts? >>>> >>>> >>>The \b is being interpreted as a backspace, deleting the 'x'? >>> >>> >> >>My workaround for that is the set path=x/bin;x/usr/bin;, etc., in a >>rexx script that starts sh (or ksh, or whatever). >> Another option is PATH=`cmd.exe /c "echo %PATH%" | sed -e 's at \\\\ at / at g'` Dave **= Email 3 ==========================** Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2003 20:08:33 -0400 From: Lewis G Rosenthal Subject: Re: Building GNU Aspell 0.50.3 Thanks, Alex & Henry. I'll give that a shot & report my experiences. I wonder why I haven;t seen that before? Alex Newman wrote: >On Sat, 06 Sep 2003 19:48:16 -0400, Henry Sobotka wrote: > > > >>Lewis G Rosenthal wrote: >> >> >>>Also, for some reason, it looks as though c:\emx\bin is getting >>>concatenated to c:\emin. Any thoughts? >>> >>> >>The \b is being interpreted as a backspace, deleting the 'x'? >> >> > >My workaround for that is the set path=x/bin;x/usr/bin;, etc., in a >rexx script that starts sh (or ksh, or whatever). > -- Lewis ------------------------------------------------------------ Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA Rosenthal & Rosenthal Accountants / Network Consultants New York / Northern Virginia www.2rosenthals.com Team OS/2 / NetWare Users International www.novell.com ------------------------------------------------------------ This OS/2 system (Apollo) uptime is 0 days 21:10 hours and 55 seconds