On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, David Highley wrote:
|Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 11:05:05 -0700 (PDT)
|From: David Highley <dhighley@highley-recommended.com>
|To: ClearCase International Users Group <cciug@rational.com>
|Subject: Re: [cciug] Problems faced in using MKS tool kit
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|"Eric D. Remington wrote:"
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|> On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, $uren [Roshi Tech] wrote:
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|> |Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 12:56:54 -0400
|> |From: "$uren [Roshi Tech]" <suren@roshitech.com>
|> |To: cciug@rational.com
|> |Subject: [cciug] Problems faced in using MKS tool kit
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|> |Hi,
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|> |MKS Toolkit - Problems faced in using MKS tool kit.
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|> 1. Clearcase expects \ on DOS/NT, mks uses /
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|Not true, the only place I can think of where Rational broke things is
|referring to the VOB tag which is not a tag but a path to begin with.
|Now it would very nice if they would provide a preference option for
|which directory character to output in their commands as I need to sed
|the output of the ClearCase commands to flip the directory character.
Ok, so do I miss something or are you making my point here? Yes you need
to sed these things, it does not work seamlessly, yuck. On the upside the
sed is harmless on a UNIX machine :)
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|> 2. subshells, subshells of make processes can sometimes use cmd.exe
|> and if you run a script (.ksh for example) it could end up
|> spawning a cmd.exe which then fires off your .ksh script
|> using mks. (depending on how makefile is set up)
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|> 3. env vars, you can end up with a lot of \ / mixing in the environment
|> if you are not careful
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|You all ways need to be careful on a Windows platform. I find very
|little consistency with the Redmond garbage.
How true. Fully agree here. 1 more vote agains Micro$oft
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|> |What are problems expected to be faced while using MKS Tool Kit.
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