Vince Hoffman wrote: > Gvim isnt linked to cygwin1.dll so it wont see cygwin mount points.
Vince, I understand your explanation, and it sounds like it is the cause. But why am I able to open the two files, but not diff them? When I use "gvim -dR", the two files open but just don't diff. (I first cd to the remote directory via the mount point). Fred ------------------------------------------- Fred Ma Department of Electronics Carleton University, Mackenzie Building 1125 Colonel By Drive Ottawa, Ontario Canada K1S 5B6 [EMAIL PROTECTED] =========================================== > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Shing-Fat Fred Ma [mailto:fma@;doe.carleton.ca] > > Sent: 25 October 2002 19:25 > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: gvimdiff fails on network drive > > > > > > Hello, > > > > I'm using cygwin-1.3.12-4 on WinME. I'm > > using gvim 6.0 to diff a pair of files residing > > on a mounted network drive i.e. /SomeUser > > is a mount pointing to \\RemoteSunBox\SomeUser. > > Read/write access to /SomeUser is no problem. > > Using "gvim -d" on localfiles is no problem. > > But using "gvim -d" on files residing on /SomeUser > > generates the error E97 (can't create diff files). > > > > I thought it might be a path name problem, > > though both invocations would use unix > > style path names. But just to see, I tried > > putting this in _vimrc (courtesy Machitani-san): > > > > > if has("unix") > > > set shell=/bin/bash > > > elseif has("win32") > > > " set shell=c:/cygwin/bin/bash > > > set shell=c:\\cygwin\\bin\\bash.exe > > > set shellcmdflag=-c > > > set shellpipe=2>&1\|\ tee > > > set shellslash > > > endif > > > > But the problem persisted. Just as a note, > > my gvim is invoked by the bash function > > > > { > > ( unset SHELL; > > /c/Program\ Files/vim/vim60/gvim $* ) & > > } > > > > because gvim's diff *never* worked prior > > to the "unset SHELL". > > > > Thanks for any suggestions. > > > > Fred -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/