[Jprogramming] pwd? tasks.ijs?

[Bill Harris]

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Oleg Kobchenko <olegykj at yahoo.com> writes:

> It's disconcerting to observe how much effort
> is put into fighting with spaces in the path.
> There is a reason why people prefer not to
> use spaces in paths for work. Even other measures
> are used like mapping a drive, u:/work, to avoid
> the troubles and move between environments and versions.

It's more than frustrating.  My task has three main parts: create a
simulation file to run, run it, and plot some graphs.  I'm guessing I
did the creating the simulation file part in less time than I've spent
so far on trying to run it (which was going to be 1 line).

> Another thing is crossing the Windows/cygwin boundary:
> you need to be clearly aware which shell is being
> currently executed and observe calling, escaping and
> naming conventions appropriately. E.g. "./" is not
> fit for Windows.

Yes, that hurt me for quite a while and may still be hurting me.

> One solution could be is a glue .bat file, which
> will instantiate cygwin shell and call (possibly
> a glue shell script) executable there. First try to run it from
> cmd.exe console from J folder with the same arguments. 
> If it runs from there, it should run from with the "shell" verb.

I think I'll go on to finishing up the plotting part and then come back
to this.  Perhaps I'll have had some insights by then; perhaps someone
will have seen something I haven't seen and post it (e.g., why the bash
verb didn't work for me), or perhaps I'll do some sort of glue .bat
file.  I just hate to add files when they don't seem as if they should
be necessary.

Thanks for your help.  I'll let everyone know if I discover the magic
incantation; feel free to let me know if you get sudden insight into
what my problem might be.

Bill
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