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Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 03:47:00 +0100
From: Michael Schaap <cygwin AT mscha DOT org>
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Subject: Re: cygstart foo.pdf results in 'AcroRd32.exe has generated errors'
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On 2-12-2002 23:57, Charles Wilson wrote:
> Andre Srinivasan wrote:
> 
>> I noticed sometime in August or September that I could no longer
>> invoke acroreader (v5.0.5) via cygstart or directly from AcroRd32 if I
>> wanted to view a document.  If I do invoke either, I get a Dr. Watson
>> (which I've appended).  On the otherhand, if I invoke IE and pass it
>> the file to open, acroread starts fine within IE.
>>
>> I've appended the drwtsn32 file. 
>> Thanks.
> 
> 
> The following works for me
> (cygwin kernel version 1.3.17-1, W2k, Acroread 5.0.1 3/27/2001)
> $ uname -a
> CYGWIN_NT-5.0 KHELDAR 1.3.17(0.67/3/2) 2002-11-27 18:54 i686 unknown
> 
> ---- in ~/.bashrc (ignore stupid mailer-induced linewrap) ----
> function pdfv ()
> {
>     cygstart /d/Program\ Files/Adobe/Acrobat\ 5.0/Reader/AcroRd32.exe 
> \"`cygpath -w -a $1`\" &
> }

What's wrong with just

	$ cygstart whatever.pdf

?  ;-)

> 
> BTW, I don't see anything in your drwatson dump that implicates 
> cygstart.  Everything on the stack seems to be inside windows DLLs.
> Any comments, Michael?
>   ( Michael Schaap   cygwin_start AT mscha DOT org )

Oh, wait, that's me!  ;-)

I'm pretty sure that it's not cygstart related.  Cygstart doesn't really 
do anything except tell Windows to start a program or open a file.

One difference between starting a program from Cygwin and from Explorer, 
is the environment, most notably the $PATH.  This might cause different 
DLLs to be found.

Anyway, Andre also has problems when starting the reader directly, I 
assume from the start menu (i.e. Explorer).  So, it seems that this is 
not a Cygwin problem at all.

That makes this problem off-topic for this mailing list :-) , but I 
would try the following standard Microsoft troubleshooting steps:
  1. Reboot, and see if the problem goes away
  2. Uninstall and re-install Acrobat Reader, and see if it goes away

HTH,

  - Michael


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