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Sven Köhler schrieb:
> I just tried to run pslatex (which is a shell-script) with run.exe.
> 
> And actually, it won't run. There is a box saying "Error: could not
> start c:\cygwin\bin\pslatex". Well, it's not an exe-file. It's basically
> a textfile to windows. Hence the error, i guess.
> 
> 
> Now i wonder, if it's already safe or if it would be possible to use
> cygwin API (for example execve) from run.exe. To fix all the issues,
> run.exe really would have to use cygwin to start the command since only
> that will resolv all the issues (analysing the shebang, following
> symlinks, etc.).
> 
> Just modifying the CreateProcess won't do.
> Or we would have to rewrite all the shebang/symlink stuff ourselves
> which is error prone.
> 

Check the cygstart utility.
I thing it works with  symbolic links.

Dirk

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