X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SARE_MSGID_LONG40,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:25:20 -0400 Message-ID: <2bf229d30908212025p49b563fft855f7df35b88f916@mail.gmail.com> Subject: cygstart not searching $PATH From: Chris Sutcliffe To: The Cygwin Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com At one point I seem to remember cygstart would search the $PATH variable for an application? For example, I believe you could type 'cygstart calc' and it would start calc.exe. This doesn't work anymore, is this by design? Chris -- Chris Sutcliffe http://emergedesktop.org -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple