[rt-users] Using the CLI in Windows

[Seth Galitzer]

I ran into this issue this week and found a solution, so I thought I'd 
share it.

I've got a set of scripts that use the CLI extensively.  I got the the 
script that runs on Windows and found that the CLI would run, but not 
authenticate correctly with the server.  Long story short: the CLI 
expects unix-style paths for finding an .rtrc file and doesn't know how 
to deal with Windows-style paths.

There are two solutions I can see:
1) hack the rt CLI script so it also knows in general how to parse 
Windows paths
2) store the account settings in environment variables

I ultimately chose #2, since it was the quickest route to getting things 
done.  I could probably do #1 at this point, but it will have to wait 
until other projects are done.

Cheers.
Seth

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Seth Galitzer
Systems Coordinator
Computing and Information Sciences
Kansas State University
http://www.cis.ksu.edu/~sgsax
sgsax at ksu.edu
785-532-7790