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Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 14:55:55 -0700 (PDT)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Reply-To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com
Subject: Re: bash and cmd launch differenlty?
To: Eugene Kanter <eugene AT bgs DOT com>, cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
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--- Eugene Kanter <eugene AT bgs DOT com> wrote:
> Some applications behave radically different been launched from bash.exe
> and cmd.exe. One example is msidb.exe which is a part of Miscrosoft
> Installer SDK (flreely available for download).
> 
> Anyone know how to start from bash so application will think it started
> from cmd?

cmd /c myapp

or

command /c myapp

The /c tells the shell to execute the single command and exit.
===
YAWIA,
Earnie Boyd <mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>

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