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Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 04:29:24 -0400
From: "Lee D. Rothstein" <l1ee057 AT veritech DOT com>
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Subject: Re: cygstart not searching $PATH
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  Lee D. Rothstein wrote:
> Chris Sutcliffe wrote:
>
> > At one point I seem to remember cygstart would search the $PATH
> > variable for an application?
>
> It absolutely did and was helpful with one or two problematic
> Windows apps. These problematic apps, that were helped by the
> non-standard use of 'cygstart', typically operate on a directory
> rather than file argument, and require startup in a directory
> different than the argument (to load one or more DLLs), if I
> remember correctly. I remember that finding that solution took a
> significant amount of trial and error.
>
> > This doesn't work
> > anymore, is this by design?
>
> As you say, it no longer works and I am am unable to start these
> problematic apps from a Windows command line, as a consequence.
Oops. Cywin not Windows command line.
>
> > Chris
>
> Lee
>


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