Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,
I am new to Unix platform. Currently, I got an job that really kills me: porting a script on MKS ksh to cygwin shell. This script contains:
cp <+
$A
$B
...

+> filename

It looks like gather all stuff between '<....>' to the file: filename. The script can run on MKS KSH, but it can't run on cygwin shell. My question is: How can I translate this part of script to cygwin shell?
Interesting thing is: I tried command
cp <+ 'xyz' +>filename
on MKS KSH. It can not run either. But why it is OK when I run the script. I am so confused.

Please help me.

Many thanks
jason

I am not familiar with KMS system. But if $A $B ... are just ascii file, you can transfer the code using:

cat $A $B > filename

Thanks for your help.
The script I am working on is a makefile. $A, $B are not files. They are variables and commands. This part of real script are:

@cp <+
-c
-o $@
-m $(@:b).map
-stack 0x100
$(ALL_OBJECTS:t" \n")
$(TMS_VERSION_OBJECT:t" \n")
-l $(TMS_LIB_DIR)/stdmthss.lib
-l $(TMS_STANDARD_LIBRARY)
....
+> tmp.0

Then the script process the file tmp.0.

jason

If you have MKS up and running, you can remove the @ in front of the cp and that will display what these lines are actually doing.

That looks like some weird extended syntax alternative to backslashes, to let a command cross several lines. If it works how it looks like it does,

Code:

command <+
       argument
       argument
       argument +> argument

is equivalent to

Code:

command \
        argument \
        argument \
        argument argument

Thanks again for all response.
I think I should add more information here.
After this part of script runing, I can see the file tmp.0 looks like:

-c
-o hse.tms
-m hse.map
-stack 0x100
hseobj/hardware.obj
hseobj/main.obj
...
hseobj/version.obj
-l c:/j/c3xtools/lib/stdmthss.lib
-l c:/j/c3xtools/lib/tms450.lib
...

As you can see, the variables are all expanded($@=hse.tms, $(@:b)=hse, etc.). There are some conditional (ifeq..) excution too, all handled well. Except that, all other stuff recorded in file tmp.0.
I did try excute command on MKS KSH terminal like:
cp <+ \
-c \
+>tmp.0

I got error "can not open '+' for input". But the scrip running under command: make (targetname) is OK. So, I suspect that might regarding command 'make' under MKS.

jason

Wait, this was a makefile? Might've been nice to know