Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <3D8B0765.9000706@mscha.org> Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 13:32:53 +0200 From: Michael Schaap User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andre Srinivasan CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Can't figure out how to pass command arguments via cygstart References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: at mscha.org by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) On 11-9-2002 2:14, Andre Srinivasan wrote: >I'd like to invoke command foo and pass the -s switch to the command. >When I try > > cygstart --hide foo -s > >cygstart complains that it does not understand the -s switch. Is >there a way to do this? > Yes, that's a bit unfortunate. I don't think there is a real solution for this - how would popt know that it shouldn't parse the "-s"? There is a workaround, though. You can use cygstart --hide -- foo -s Best regards, - Michael -- 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/