X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4DC2A4A1.9080905@cwilson.fastmail.fm> Date: Thu, 05 May 2011 09:22:41 -0400 From: Charles Wilson Reply-To: Charles Wilson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Background processes prevent terminal window from closing References: <0105D5C1E0353146B1B222348B0411A209E8030C92@NIHMLBX02.nih.gov> In-Reply-To: <0105D5C1E0353146B1B222348B0411A209E8030C92@NIHMLBX02.nih.gov> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 On 5/5/2011 7:38 AM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: > But if you do not want to be limited file in the current working > directory, use a function. > > notepad () > { > cygstart "$(cygpath -u -W)/notepad.exe" "$(cygpath -w "$1")" > } > > You might have to change -W to -S in the first cygpath, if notepad.exe > is in $SYSDIR but not WINDIR. (In my instance of XP, it is in both.) the latest (1.4.6) version of cygstart should allow the following to work: notepad () { cygstart notepad.exe "$(cygpath -w "$1")" } -- Chuck -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple