From: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com (Earnie Boyd) Subject: Re: Running shell-scripts from NT GUI? 15 Nov 1998 03:07:04 -0800 Message-ID: <19981115044016.15238.rocketmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@send104.yahoomail.com> Reply-To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: Magnus Homann , gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com ---Magnus Homann wrote: > > Now, to make it easuer to run these scritps, I would like to make an icon > that, when activated, starts /bin/sh and runs a specific script. It sounds > really easy to do, but I don't know where to start. I've tried reading the > archive and the docs, but I don't really know what I'm looking for... > > Any ideas out there? I have a couple of options. Option1: Always name the script with a suffix like .sh and the associate /bin/sh to .sh. Option2: You have a UNIX script named myscript that you want Win32 to run. Create a file called myscript.bat which contains: c:\bin\sh -c /scripts/myscript BTW: I prefer Option2. == - \\||// -------------------o0O0--Earnie--0O0o------------------- -- earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com -- -- http://www.freeyellow.com/members5/gw32/index.html -- ----------------------ooo0O--O0ooo---------------------- PS: Newbie's, you should visit my page. _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.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".