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Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 22:12:43 +0100
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Subject: Re: 1.7.1: Problem with cygstart and arguments containing spaces
From: Ilya Beylin <beylin DOT i AT gmail DOT com>
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Hello,

Cyrille Lefevre wrote:
> cygstart --wait /system32/cmd /c "echo 1 2&pause"

I do not think it is a convincing example. cmd.exe treats everything
that follows / c as a single command, so yuo would get the same result
even without quotes.

=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 cygstart --wait $WINDIR/system32/cmd /c echo 1 2=C2=A0 \=
& pause

The problem is probably that windows passes arguments as a
concatenated string,=C2=A0 to be parsed by the application. Try to pass the
whole command line to your program, it may work better:

=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 cygstart /cygdrive/d/Software/Console2/Console.exe=C2=A0=
 '-d "C:/Program Files" '

Regards,
Ilya

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