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Subject: Re: bash -c '$COMSPEC' # worked sometime b4 cygwin 1.5.24-2
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Larry Hall (Cygwin) schrieb:
> There hasn't been any effort to support Windows paths in Cygwin for a long
> time.  That doesn't mean it wouldn't have worked sometime in the past.  
> It's
> just that doing so is not a goal of this project.  Use the POSIX form of 
> the
> path and will work nicely for you - /cygdrive/d/winnt/system32/cmd.exe.  If
> you need to use COMSPEC, run it through 'cygpath' to convert it to a POSIX
> path.

$ cygstart $COMSPEC
is an easy alternative.
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Reini

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