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Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2012 21:10:49 -0400
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On 4/3/2012 8:34 PM, raf wrote:
> Eliot Moss wrote:
>
>> My suggestion would be to read up on the cygpath utility
>> program and use it to convert cygwin paths to ones suitable
>> for a non-cygwin program, etc.  I launch non-cygwin programs
>> all the time on Windows 7 that way ...
>>
>> Regards -- Eliot Moss
>
> Hi,
>
> Thanks but I'm using a non-cygwin path already.
> I am not using a cygwin path that needs to be
> converted to anything.

Except you wrote F:/blah which is *not* a Windows
path.  F:\blah is ...

Hence my suggestion.

If it's of any help, here is what I do for launching
Word on a file from cygwin; similar functions work for
Excel, Acrobat, etc.:

In my .bashrc file:

    ...
    alias word=winword
    ...
    function winword {
      local ARG
      [ -n "$1" ] && { ARG="$(cygpath -wa "$1")"; shift; }
      command winword ${ARG:+"${ARG}"} "$@" &
    }
    ...

The rest of the setup is:

1) ~/bin is on my PATH

2) ~/bin/winword is a cygwin symbolic link (ln -s) to
   /c/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Office/Office12/WINWORD.EXE

This does the right thing even for a path that starts /cygdrive/c/...
etc.

Eliot Moss

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