On 20-11-2002 19:51, Randall R Schulz wrote:

I don't know how cygstart works internally, but I imagine it looks up
the association and launches the appropriate application without regard
for the execute bits on the document file being opened.
Luckily, cygstart doesn't need to do such things. ;-) It just passes the filename to the ShellExecute API function, which doesn't seem to care about the execute bits.

- Michael


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