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Re: "start" for Cygwin
At 06:16 3-3-2002, Charles Wilson wrote:
>Michael Schaap wrote:
>
>Hmmm...how does this differ from the "run" utility here:
>
>http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/users/cwilson/cygutils/unversioned/run/
>
>It may be entirely different; I'm not sure. Certainly they were written
>for different purposes. Run was intended to hide the console for GUI
>programs that still expect a stdout/stderr console.
Well, they seem somewhat related, but they do play different roles, and I
don't think one can replace the other.
(The code is very different, by the way. They use different APIs - "start"
is essentially just a wrapper around the ShellExecute function.)
>Run doesn't use popt :-( so it doesn't have pretty help, but it can be
>compiled as a native windows app :-)
>
>Anyway, I personally have no objection to including start in cygutils --
>but the sudden appearance of a 'start.exe' command in /usr/bin (which
>could hide WINNT/start.exe) may cause consternation in some quarters.
>
>FYI, I've just completed the following HOW-TO-CONTRIBUTE (to cygutils)
>document. It will show up in /usr/doc/cygutils-X.Y.Z/ in the next release
>of cygutils.
OK, once the discussion settles, and the final name is decided, I'll make a
contribution according to this document.
Thanks,
- Michael
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