MKS is a software package for Windows that provides a Unix-like environment for scripting and porting software. It includes several command-line shells supporting traditional Unix commands and Windows-specific commands, connectivity tools, and porting APIs.
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How determine whether a MKS-sandbox is sparse or non-sparse from the command line?
how can I determine the sparse status of an MKS sandbox from the command line?
From the GUI, I can select a sandbox and open "Sandbox Information". If the check-box "Sparse" is set, the sandbox is sparse.
I like to determine this status from the…

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What is `sparse sandbox` and `shared sandbox` in MKS Integrity
What do Make Sandbox Sparse and Make Sandbox Shared mean in MKS Integrity?

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How can I manipulate MKS sandboxes and members through Visual Studio?
As with most other versioning systems some brilliant individual, or group thereof, has established an extention to Visual Studio so that a developer may manage the state of their files directly with the application they work most often in.
Sadly,…

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How can I configure poll on check-in for Jenkins against MKS source without building every time?
We are having an issue when we configure Jenkins to "Poll SCM" with a sechule of every 2 minutes. It does appear to be polling every 2 minutes, but is also building every 2 minutes instead of only when there are changes to the source. The "Summary…

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How can I include a revision of a file in a Change Package after it was checked in
This happens occasionally in some projects I'm involved in that are using MKS as version control tool. A file is checked-out, modified and then checked-in but it was forgotten to be included in the related Change Package.
Is there a way to achieve…

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MKS Integrity Command line API
Has anyone here got experience in building a parser for the MKS Integrity command line API. I am planning to build an API (in C#) and would need to build a CLI result parser which I could use to parse the results from the CLI. I have heard that the…

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PTC integrity checking in unchanged files
while testing the performance of PTC integrity via script using CLI calls, we do the following.
We are trying to create different versions of the project and gather the time taken to do so. For this the different versions of the project (contents)…

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MKS cleaning projects of not useful files
I am using MKS on mi work daily, and I work with a very big repository thata contains a lot of projects, with a very colorful structure. On my department, we want to improve this project erasing all the optional files (.suo, .pdb, .txt, bin folders,…

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How to use .netrc when running MKS Toolkit on Windows?
I am moving an application from Unix (AIX) to Windows. We have MKS Toolkit on the Windows server in order to run our shell scripts fairly unchanged. However, my old FTP jobs depend on the .netrc file. Can anybody tell me whether .netrc is supported…

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How to get mksapiviewer to return unicode symbols in output
I am using mksapiviewer to get information about different fields. Detailed Description field has Euro symbol. Because of that the api is not returning full strings and in xml it is not closing the tag and missing the next open tag.
Command used to…

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use Maven to add info from MKS to Sonar
According to to the SCM Activity plugin info from the Sonar Webiste (http://docs.codehaus.org/display/SONAR/SCM+Activity+Plugin), a connection to MKS should be possible. On the Maven site, MKS provider code also exists.
However, when I run mvn…

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korn vs bash exit code
I have the following problem:
I have some test scripts that previously were run with ksh (from MKS Toolkit)
The scripts will need to remain unmodified (not a single character will be changed).
I will use bash (from Mingw/Msys) to run these…

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How to see the list of files checked in to MKS after creating the devpath?
After creating the devpath in MKS, developers will check in the code to MKS. I want to find the list of files got checked in to the MKS after creation of devpath (from the beginning to the end).
Please help me.
Thanks
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user input into sed command via variable
I had this question before and used @HatLess answer when it was going to be static. It needs to be user input and I have tried the script but I am having issues as it tells me file not found and several other messages depending on what I change. I…

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Effective scripting option to Automate MKS Integrity
I want to create one script that will open the Windows application to perform some task.
Application is PTC integrity,
I want to write a script that would open the items ( via unique Item ID ) and make changes in one of it's attribute's value and…

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