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From: Tom Dager <tdager AT secureworks DOT com>
To: "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: how to run a process from DOS  within a cygwin .bat file
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 14:24:23 -0500
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Damn...and that is why I rarely post questions here....sad.

If the "manual" was a cohesive, comprehensive document that I could curl up
with and read until my eyes bleed that would ALWAYS be the correct thing to
do. Instead you have to read a FAQ, some documentation, archives, yada,
yada, yada.

BTW...I am not bashing the documentors or anything, just sick of seeing the
RTFM response.

TlD

-----Original Message-----
From: Ronald Landheer-Cieslak [mailto:ronald AT landheer DOT com]
Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 5:46 AM
To: gilles bourgeois
Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: how to run a process from DOS within a cygwin .bat file


On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, gilles bourgeois wrote:
> hello again
> does someone knows how to launch a cygwin shell and further commands from
> DOS, e.g with a help of a .bat file.
> I had a look of cygwin.bat file but I do not know the right syntax to give
> the command to the bash shell
DOS as in "Disk Operating System" (the "OS" of the pre-windows era, when 
Bill Gates so rightly told us that "640 KB should be enough for anyone") - 
impossible.

DOS as in a "DOS box" under Windows (i.e. the system shell, kinda) - just 
run the darn thing. If your bin directory is in the PATH, just type 
"bash".

That, and RTFM.

rlc



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