Re: vss2cvs.pl problem (Was: Cvs problem)

[Jim McIntosh]

Hi Noel,
Yeah I'm on a windows machine (windows 2000 service pack 2) and I am using cygwin too. I have installed Activeperl 5.6 but I was previously using Cygwins perl.

I tried chomp before I tried to concatenate the two strings into $currfile but it didn't seem to work as the same error came up.

Thanks for your help,

James

>From: Noel Yap

>To: Jim McIntosh , address@hidden

>Subject: Re: vss2cvs.pl problem (Was: Cvs problem)

>Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 06:57:13 -0700 (PDT)

>

>--- Jim McIntosh wrote:

> > I'm having a problem with vss2cvs.pl the problem is

> > that when the

> > script tries to concatenate $currdir with $dirline

> > it seems to copy one over

> > the other rather than next to each other.

> > i.e

> > $currfile should be cvsrepository/hi.txt

> > however it ends up being hi.txtository

> >

> > Heres that part of the code:

> >

> > $currfile = "$currdir$dirline";

> > open(FILETYPE,"ss Filetype \"$currfile\"

> > $ssuserpass |");

> > $type = lc();

> > close(FILETYPE);

> >

> > Does anyone know how to fix this. Please help as I'm

> > only a student in 2nd

> > year at University and have never really used perl

> > or cvs.

>

>It looks like the initial (ie on the right-hand-side

>of the assignment) value of $currdir has a '\r' in it.

>

>My guess is that you're on a Windows machine. Is this

>correct?

>

>Are you using Cygwin? If so, are you using Cygwin's

>perl and are you using a binary-mounted directory?

>

>If all you want to do is get this script working, you

>can do a chop($currdir) before the assignment. I

>would think, though, that you'll run into other

>similar problems with the script and even line-ending

>problems later on with CVS if you are, in fact,

>running on a text-mounted directory.

>

>Noel

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