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Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 12:05:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
To: Andre Srinivasan <andre AT e2open DOT com>
cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Can't figure out how to pass command arguments via cygstart
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On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Andre Srinivasan wrote:

> ...
> AS> Works for me.  Add it to the man page and we'll call it a feature.
>
> IP> It already IS a feature.  The getopt function will stop processing
> IP> switches when it encounters the '--' option.
>
> You know that and I know that (now).  I was just suggesting that
> adding this to the man page will eliminate these kinds of questions.
>                                                                 -andre.

Agreed.  Below is a minimal patch against cygutils-1.1.2, feel free to
expand on it.
	Igor

================================================================
--- src/cygstart/cygstart.1-orig        2002-03-16 00:49:43.000000000 -0500
+++ src/cygstart/cygstart.1     2002-09-20 11:58:29.000000000 -0400
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ cygstart \- start a program or open a fi
 .RB "[\-\-\fBshowminimized\fP] [\-\-\fBshowminnoactive\fP]"
 .RB "[\-\-\fBshowna\fP] [\-\-\fBshownoactivate\fP]"
 .RB "[\-\-\fBshownormal\fP] [\-\-\fBusage\fP] [\-\-\fBversion\fP]"
-.RB "[\-\-\fBlicense\fP] [\-\-\fBreference\fP]"
+.RB "[\-\-\fBlicense\fP] [\-\-\fBreference\fP] [\-\-]"
 .RB "\fIfile\fP [\fIarguments\fP]"
 .br
 .\"}}}
@@ -148,6 +148,10 @@ Display licensing information
 \fB\-\-reference\fP
 Open MSDN reference for ShellExecute

+.TP
+\fB\-\-\fP
+Interpret the rest of the command-line arguments as non-options
+
 .SH EXAMPLES
 Start Bash in a new window
 .PP
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