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: <3EC16993.5030306@kleckner.net> Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 14:54:27 -0700 From: Jim Kleckner User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020508 Netscape6/6.2.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Does cygstart always expand arguments? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > I think you're confused about what cygstart does. Cygstart is for > situations when, given a data file, you want to run the associated > application, like double-clicking it in explorer. While you can use it to > launch .exe's (by definition), it's probably not what you want in this > case. Try invoking gvim without cygstart, i.e., simply > > $ gvim "file with spaces.txt" > > Hope this helps, > Igor > cygstart documentation says you can supply arguments. In general, one would expect to be able to have arguments that have embedded spaces in them, yes? Thanks - Jim -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/