Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com From: "Alex Malinovich" To: Subject: cygwin.bat Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 17:04:09 -0500 Message-ID: <001001c138b2$31815c20$0800a8c0@TheLoveShack.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2616 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2526.0000 Importance: Normal Just a quick observation. Cygwin.bat calls "bash --login -i" to start cygwin. Wouldn't it be a bit better to instead use 'start' to launch bash? e.g. "start bash --login -i" By using 'start' bash is called, and then the batchfile continues execution. (it ends) This would alleviate the issue of "Terminate batch job?" messages that occasionally crop up when closing the window. It also allows more than one instance of bash to be called by using a keyboard shortcut. I have ctrl-alt-c set to call cygwin.bat. The only problem is that if I already have a window open, it won't allow me to open a second one that way since the batch file is still "running". Using 'start', I can now open as many windows as I want. AFAIK the 'start' command has been implemented in all MS OS's since 95 so compatibility shouldn't be an issue. Just a suggestion. -Alex -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/