Greetings, Brian Inglis! > On 2017-07-12 00:16, Ugly Leper wrote: >> Starting from a Windows Command Prompt, and using a syntax recommended >> from years ago I still start a bash shell with >> start /wait bin\bash (i.e. not just bin\bash) >> and a mintty shell with >> start bin\mintty (i.e. not just bin\mintty) >> and yet experiment shows that both simplified forms in brackets "work". >> Am I gaining / losing anything by sticking with the older longer >> syntax, or can I just dive in, as in brackets?
> Running with start, like cygstart, spawns a separate window process Not necessarily. Ref: START /B -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Wednesday, July 12, 2017 23:14:46 Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
