From: earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com (Earnie Boyd) Subject: Re: Shell-Here Explorer context menu (NBY) 4 Dec 1997 11:02:24 -0800 Message-ID: <19971204135649.22359.qmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain To: eckert AT netcom DOT com Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com BASH is command line only; just like MSDOS only a little smarter. The rest of the .exe's in the set are to be executed in a command shell. No GUI. However you should be able to create GUI programs with this tool set. Let me point you to: ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/gnu-win32/latest/ http://www.cygnus.com/pubs/gnupro/ http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32/ http://www.cygnus.com/ml/gnu-win32 http://www.fu.is.saga-u.ac.jp/~colin/gcc.html http://www.itribe.net/virtunix/winhelp-man-pages/ - \\||// ---o0O0--Earnie--0O0o---- -earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com- ------ooo0O--O0ooo------- >Date: Wed, 03 Dec 1997 23:32:32 -0800 >To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com >From: SRE >Subject: Re: Shell-Here Explorer context menu > >At 04:52 AM 12/03/97 -0500, Robert Seeger wrote: >>Very nice. I like this. I've wished for this type of thing for a while, but >>didn't know how to do it. Thanks. . . > >I'm fairly new to this list, so hopefully I'm not asking a stoopid >questiont that's been asked and answered recently... > >Opening a shell is nice, now how about drag-and-drop paths? Is there a >semi-convenient way to drag a file out of Explorer and drop it into a >bash window? The default behavior is to have paths like "D:\temp\file.txt" >which bash (of course) interprets as "D:tempfile.txt" or worse since the >backslashes are not seen as directory separators. It should be seen as >"//d/temp/file.txt", right? > >This same thing is a problem when trying to use utilities like diff from a >(NT) command shell, or double-clicking on an icon that's supposed to start >a script, or dragging a file onto an icon. Anything with file names as arguments. > >SRE > >mailto:eckert AT netcom DOT com -or- mailto:list_owner AT juno DOT com > >"The only possible interpretation of any research whatever > in the `social sciences' is: some do, some don't." > -- Ernest Rutherford > >- >For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to >"gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help". > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".