erlang,mnesia and Windows

[Jens Peder Terjesen (ETO)]

Hi.

Could it be that you should use \ (backslash) instead of / (slash)
as directory delimiter?

Jens

-----Original Message-----
From: Torbjorn Tornkvist [mailto:tobbe@REDACTED]
Sent: 24. august 2001 13:20
To: erlang-questions@REDACTED
Subject: erlang,mnesia and Windows



Hi,

I'm trying to get Mnesia going under Windows.
>From a cygwin rxvt/tcsh I get the following:
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> erl -mnesia dir d:/cygwin/home/tobbe/tmp
Eshell V5.0.2  (abort with ^G)
1> init:get_arguments().
[{root,["D:\\ERL50~1.2"]},
 {progname,["erl"]},
 {mnesia,["dir","d:/cygwin/home/tobbe/tmp"]},
 {home,["C:\\WINDOWS"]}]
2> application:start(mnesia).

=ERROR REPORT==== 24-Aug-2001::11:25:02 ===
application_controller: syntax error before: '/': d:/cygwin/home/tobbe/tmp
{error,{bad_environment_value,"d:/cygwin/home/tobbe/tmp"}}
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But ls/0 works fine (tmp is empty):
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3> ls("d:/cygwin/home/tobbe/tmp").
ok
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And here is another example:
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4> file:open("/cygwin/home/tobbe/tmp/heja",[write]).
{ok,<0.47.0>}
5> 
   <Ctrl-c>
> ls tmp
heja
> erl -mnesia dir /cygwin/home/tobbe/tmp
Eshell V5.0.2  (abort with ^G)
1> application:start(mnesia).
{error,{bad_environment_value,"/cygwin/home/tobbe/tmp"}}

=ERROR REPORT==== 24-Aug-2001::11:58:53 ===
application_controller: syntax error before: '/': /cygwin/home/tobbe/tmp
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Ideas anyone ?

Cheers /Tobbe