X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-IronPortListener: Outbound_SMTP From: "Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]" To: "cygwin@cygwin.com" Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 12:10:17 -0500 Subject: RE: MinTTY Message-ID: <0105D5C1E0353146B1B222348B0411A211B41DF2@NIHMLBX02.nih.gov> References: <495917BA.1090401@gmail.com> <0E77A4429F494644A9C7CB6F6F3D2125@DFW5RB41> <0105D5C1E0353146B1B222348B0411A211B41DD8@NIHMLBX02.nih.gov> <20081230165106.GA5230@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <495AB264.8020800@gmail.com> <20081231010535.GA14257@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <495BB472.9060305@gmail.com> <0105D5C1E0353146B1B222348B0411A211B41DE5@NIHMLBX02.nih.gov> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id n02HcH01008348 Thorsten Kampe wrote on Thursday, January 01, 2009 11:37 AM: > * Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] (Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:03:48 -0500)> >> Thorsten Kampe wrote on Wednesday, December 31, 2008 9:40 AM: >>> you have to use "start". >> >> Or "cygstart.exe"? > > Right. Although there is no real advantage to use that instead of > start. On XP there is no start.exe. (98se ) So you have to use cmd /c start The main advantage of cygstart is that it understands POSIX paths. I seem to remember that sometimes quoting can be simpler with cygstart than with `cmd /c start'. > Okay. Can we say "a little bit lengthy although not as lenghty as > someone might expect"? Yes. :-) Actually, when I started writing the steps to get at the environmental variables I was surprised that it was so much longer than I remembered. - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. -- 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/