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Subject:  Re: The Beauty of Cygstart
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 14:44:33 +0000 (UTC)
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Igor Peshansky <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu> wrote in
news:Pine DOT GSO DOT 4 DOT 63 DOT 0603240851170 DOT 16018 AT access1 DOT cims DOT nyu DOT edu: 

> On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, zzapper wrote:
> 
>> zzapper <david AT XXXX DOT XX DOT XX> wrote in
>> news:Xns979065E51F443zzappergmailcom AT 80 DOT 91 DOT 229 DOT 5: 
> 
> Even it if's your own, <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>.
> 
>> Whoops forget the vital & (launch in own process)
>>
>> function cs() {cygstart *$1* &}
>> function csn() {cygstart "$(/bin/ls -t *.* | head -1)" &}
>> function csl() { cygstart.exe *$(history -1 | sed "s/.* //g")* & }
> 
> The "&" isn't needed for cygstart, as it simply tells the shell to
> execute the proper association and exits.  The only point at which
> backgrounding would help is the short time it takes for the shell to
> figure out what the association is (nearly instantaneous on my
> machine). 

Drat!!
Igor,
Its funny how easy it is to "panic" when posting to a newsgroup, i've 
never NEEDED the & myself, but some reason when I did a quick test the 
application hung and I jumped to wrong conclusion!
Dave


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