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Subject: RE: "start" for Cygwin
Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 22:53:52 +1100
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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To: "David Starks-Browning" <starksb AT ebi DOT ac DOT uk>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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I think cygstart or something like that will eliminate the potiential
for touble.

Rob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Starks-Browning [mailto:starksb AT ebi DOT ac DOT uk] 
> Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2002 8:32 PM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: RE: "start" for Cygwin
> 
> 
> On Saturday 2 Mar 02, Stephan Mueller writes:
> > Note though, that on Win9x, start is a standalone file (I forget if 
> > it's start.exe or start.com) on the path. Cygwin still 
> supports 9x, so 
> > fears about consternation in some quarters still apply 
> (it's just that 
> > they're different quarters than Charles originally had in mind :-)
> 
> I use Win9x, and I don't think it's a problem for the 
> cygutils package to introduce /usr/bin/start.  People who 
> install the cygutils package can probably figure out what's going on.
> 
> My opinion, anyway.
> 
> David
> 
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