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From:	Haojun Bao <baohaojun AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject:	`cygstart bash' won't work as advertised in man-page
Date:	Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:31:34 +0800
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it is said in the manual that

EXAMPLES
       Start Bash in a new window

       $ cygstart bash

but what I get is:

{ bhj AT bhj1 /q }
$cygstart bash
Unable to start 'Q:\bash': The specified file was not found.

I'm testing out cygwin-1.7, and it works fine on cygwin-1.5. Is this a
designed feature to reduce security risk that user must specify the full
path if the file is not in the working folder?

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