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Subject: RE: lpr works? FAQ in error?
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:19:33 -0400
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From: "Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]" <BBuchbinder@niaid.nih.gov>
To: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@mail.com>, <cygwin@cygwin.com>
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Mark J. Reed wrote on Wednesday, July 23, 2008 4:20 PM:
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Wilfried wrote:
>> But there is no need to put the sleep command in.
>> I had the impression that the script waited until the cygstart
>> command was finished.
> 
> Yes, but the cygstart command doesn't wait for the command it starts;
> it returns to the shell prompt immediately.  So the script might
> start Notepad and then delete the file before Notepad even has a
> chance to try to load it.   

Giving cygstart a ` --wait ' option might be useful for some situations.
(Just a thought -- NOT a request!)  But a simple

$ notepad /p "$(cygpath -w "$tmp_file")"

waits for notepad to exit before issuing a new prompt, so one does
not need to do

$ "$(cygpath -u "$COMSPEC")" /c start /wait notepad.exe /p "$(cygpath -w "$tmp_file")"

or even

$ cygstart --wait notepad /p "$(cygpath -w "$tmp_file")"

(theoretically possible in the future)

- Barry
  -  Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.