Welcome to the wonderful world of portability… or rather the lack of it. Before we start analyzing these two options in detail and take a deeper look how different operating systems handle them, it should be noted that the BSD socket implementation is the mother of all socket implementations. Basically all other systems copied the … Read more
From this news group posting by Mark Zbikowski himself: The differences between .CMD and .BAT as far as CMD.EXE is concerned are: With extensions enabled, PATH/APPEND/PROMPT/SET/ASSOC in .CMD files will set ERRORLEVEL regardless of error. .BAT sets ERRORLEVEL only on errors. In other words, if ERRORLEVEL is set to non-0 and then you run one … Read more
If, some time during a PowerShell session, you need to see or to temporarily modify the PATH environment variable , you can type one of these commands: $env:Path # shows the actual content $env:Path=”C:\foo;” + $env:Path # attach to the beginning $env:Path += ‘;C:\foo’ # attach to the end
Update: Comments point out that the instructions here may be dangerous. Consider using the Visual C++ 2008 Express edition or the purpose-built Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler for Python (details) and NOT using the original answer below. Original error message means the required version of Visual C++ is not installed. For Windows installations: While running setup.py … Read more
Prerequisites: You need to be able to run PowerShell as an administrator You need to set your PowerShell execution policy to a permissive value or be able to bypass it Steps: Launch Windows PowerShell as an Administrator, and wait for the PS> prompt to appear Navigate within PowerShell to the directory where the script lives: … Read more
A pseudo environment variable named errorlevel stores the exit code: echo Exit Code is %errorlevel% Also, the if command has a special syntax: if errorlevel See if /? for details. Example @echo off my_nify_exe.exe if errorlevel 1 ( echo Failure Reason Given is %errorlevel% exit /b %errorlevel% ) Warning: If you set an environment variable … Read more
If this problem comes on a Windows machine, do the following. Go to Credential Manager in German, it is called: Anmeldeinformationsverwaltung in French, it is called: Gestionnaire d’identification in Polish, it is called: Menedżer poświadczeń in Portuguese, it is called: Gerenciador de Credenciais in Russian, it is called: Диспетчер учётных данных in Spanish, it is … Read more
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Since Git 2.16.1(2) you can use C:\> git update-git-for-windows In version between 2.14.2 and 2.16.1, the command was C:\> git update (It was later renamed to avoid confusion with updating the local repository, e.g. like svn update does it.) That command does not exist in Git 2.13 and before. If this errors with “is not … Read more
Manually creating a folder named ‘npm’ in the displayed path fixed the problem. More information can be found on Troubleshooting page