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Re: running droplet from cygwin shell-file not found

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From: Mike Russell
Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 17:28
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<joled@rcn.com> wrote in message 
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> Hi Mike,
> I am quoting the path so that doesn't appear to be the problem. It looks 
> like, by default, ImageReady looks inc:/Desktop and Settings/me for the 
> input file. it prepends c:/d & s/me to the beginning of the path of the 
> input file. I was expecting it to use the full path if I gave it the full 
> path but it still prepends c:/d&s/ me. <

That's a very reasonable expectation, and a rather dreadful command line 
interface on ImageReady's part.

> I have gotten around it by making sure I copy the files to a folder under 
> c:/d&s/me.

Glad you found something that works.

> Now I wonder if there is a way to tell when the completion of the droplet 
> has been reached. cygwin appears to background the process but will not 
> let me "wait" for it to proceed with the execution of the script.

My Unix is a bit rusty, not to mention my cygwin.  If you can get hold of 
the pid of the droplet, perhaps with a combination of ps and awk, you can 
use wait(1) to hang until it finishes.
-- 

Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com/forum/
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