Re: running windows progs in cygwin/bash

[Randall R Schulz <rrschulz at cris dot com>]

Carlos,

If you want to take advantage of the underlying file suffix associations, 
look into the "cygstart" command. If you don't have that program on your 
Cygwin installation, install the package "cygutils."

Otherwise, you can invoke Windows programs from a Cygwin shell. Just use 
the fully qualified path name of the executable (being careful to quote or 
escape as necessary when spaces or other characters special to the shell 
are present) or put the application's directory in the PATH you're using in 
Cygwin.

Look into the "cygpath" for conversion between Cygwin / Unix / POSIX file 
and path names or PATH (-like) values and Windows or DOS equivalents.

Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


At 04:35 2002-10-12, Carlos wrote:
> How do I get windows to use cygwin to run programs? For example, I might
> want to associate an action with .mak files that runs make on them. I would
> now execute the make command in dos through command.com, but how would I
> execute it in bash? Thanks.

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