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Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 20:26:51 +0100
From: Michael Schaap <cygwin AT mscha DOT org>
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On 20-11-2002 19:51, Randall R Schulz wrote:

>
> I don't know how cygstart works internally, but I imagine it looks up
> the association and launches the appropriate application without regard
> for the execute bits on the document file being opened.

Luckily, cygstart doesn't need to do such things.  ;-)  It just passes 
the filename to the ShellExecute API function, which doesn't seem to 
care about the execute bits.

  - Michael


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