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 content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: RE: "start" for Cygwin Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 22:53:52 +1100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Message-ID: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.5762.3 X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: "start" for Cygwin Thread-Index: AcHClkKyGaRdkeNkRIqrL+ClnathEgAE8qYA From: "Robert Collins" To: "David Starks-Browning" , Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id g23BsNA12824 I think cygstart or something like that will eliminate the potiential for touble. Rob > -----Original Message----- > From: David Starks-Browning [mailto:starksb@ebi.ac.uk] > Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2002 8:32 PM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: RE: "start" for Cygwin > > > On Saturday 2 Mar 02, Stephan Mueller writes: > > Note though, that on Win9x, start is a standalone file (I forget if > > it's start.exe or start.com) on the path. Cygwin still > supports 9x, so > > fears about consternation in some quarters still apply > (it's just that > > they're different quarters than Charles originally had in mind :-) > > I use Win9x, and I don't think it's a problem for the > cygutils package to introduce /usr/bin/start. People who > install the cygutils package can probably figure out what's going on. > > My opinion, anyway. > > David > > > -- > 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/ > > -- 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/