Thomas Porschberg wrote: > we use Xalan on our UNIX/LINUX machines and I want now to the same on > Cygwin. I installed Xerces+Xalan(the windows binaries). > > In our UNIX scripts the call to Xalan is: > > Xalan -o $RESULTFILE $XMLFILE $XSLFILE > > where $RESULTFILE, $XMLFILE and $XSLFILE are specified as > UNIX-paths. > > That doesn't work under Cygwin I had to write: > > Xalan -o `cygpath -w $RESULTFILE` ... > > Of course I could now write > if $cywin ; then > Xalan -o `cygpath -w $RESULTFILE` ... > else > Xalan -o $RESULTFILE $XMLFILE $XSLFILE > fi > > but I don't want change the script. > > Is there another way to solve the problem ?
You could create a script that cygpath-ifies the parameters and passes them to a call to the actual Xalan executable, name that script "Xalan" and put it somewhere into the PATH where it gets called instead of the actual Xalan binary. Regards mks -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
