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From: "Rui Carmo" <rcarmo AT accao DOT net>
To: <cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Suggestion: cygrunsrv-0.92-2
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 17:40:22 +0100
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> On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 04:50:30PM +0100, Rui Carmo wrote:
> > Hello there.
> >
> > I'd just like to offer a suggestion for cygrun: add an option for
"starting
> > path", as for the "Start In" text field in shortcuts.
> >
> > The rationale is simple: Some apps write to files in their start-up
> > directory, which can be a problem. This way, you can specify a path for
them
> > to start in, out of the way of mischief...
> >
> > (I personally have a set of Perl scripts - that manipulate DOS-like and
> > cygwin-like _relative_ paths - where I have had to add hard-coded
"chdir" to
> > the start of the script, so as to avoid changing all the relative path
> > assignments in the rest of the scripts...)
> >
> > Other than that, It's working flawlessly for me running RRDTool
statistics -
> > excellent work.
> >
> > Rui Carmo
> >