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Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 20:42:23 -0800
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From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Subject: Re: Win 2000 : Open Files With Word & Excel From The Command
  Line
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Steve,

Do your scripts look something like this:

-==-
#!/bin/sh

exec "/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office/winword.exe" "$@"
-==-

If they're missing the "$@" part, they're not passing on the arguments 
you give the script to "winword.exe" or "excel.exe". The "exec" part at 
the beginning is optional, but definitely recommended in cases like this.


Oh, and to satisfy Thorsten: This is scripting 101 stuff and is in no 
way Cygwin-specific.


Randall Schulz


At 19:55 2003-02-14, Steve wrote:
>Hi;
>
>I'm on win 2000 and I am using cygwin.
>
>I put script files called "word" and "excel" in my /usr/local/bin. 
>These files have the path to the ms word and ms excel executables.
>
>They work, they bring up the apps, but I can't get the apps to take 
>command line arguments to open remote files.
>
>For example:
>
>cygwin> word c:/docs/memos/parking/myfile.doc
>
>opens only word not "myfile.doc".
>
>Is there any way around this?  I would love to be able to do this as 
>it is monumentally faster then scrolling through a file dialog box or 
>explorer to open up a file.
>
>Thanks
>
>Steve


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