Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <003f01c1c19c$d2081ad0$d700a8c0@mchasecompaq> From: "Michael A Chase" To: References: Subject: Re: launch a win32 process from bash? Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 17:21:46 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan Simms" To: Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 16:37 Subject: launch a win32 process from bash? > I was wondering if it were possible to launch a win32 process from > within cygwin. (i.e. run a windows program in windows, but invoke it from > bash). Certainly, but you may need to convert the arguments to Win32 format since most Windows programs don't understand POSIZ paths. The utility cygpath is available to help. -- Mac :}) ** I normally forward private questions to the appropriate mail list. ** Ask Smarter: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Give a hobbit a fish and he eats fish for a day. Give a hobbit a ring and he eats fish for an age. -- 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/