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RE: "start" for Cygwin
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- To: "David Starks-Browning" <starksb at ebi dot ac dot uk>,<cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 22:53:52 +1100
- Subject: RE: "start" for Cygwin
I think cygstart or something like that will eliminate the potiential
for touble.
Rob
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Starks-Browning [mailto:starksb@ebi.ac.uk]
> Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2002 8:32 PM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: RE: "start" for Cygwin
>
>
> On Saturday 2 Mar 02, Stephan Mueller writes:
> > Note though, that on Win9x, start is a standalone file (I forget if
> > it's start.exe or start.com) on the path. Cygwin still
> supports 9x, so
> > fears about consternation in some quarters still apply
> (it's just that
> > they're different quarters than Charles originally had in mind :-)
>
> I use Win9x, and I don't think it's a problem for the
> cygutils package to introduce /usr/bin/start. People who
> install the cygutils package can probably figure out what's going on.
>
> My opinion, anyway.
>
> David
>
>
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