Re: cygstart not searching $PATH
Chris Sutcliffe wrote: At one point I seem to remember cygstart would search the $PATH variable for an application? It absolutely did and was helpful with one or two problematic Windows apps. These problematic apps, that were helped by the non-standard use of 'cygstart', typically operate on a directory rather than file argument, and require startup in a directory different than the argument (to load one or more DLLs), if I remember correctly. I remember that finding that solution took a significant amount of trial and error. This doesn't work anymore, is this by design? As you say, it no longer works and I am am unable to start these problematic apps from a Windows command line, as a consequence. Chris Lee -- 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
Re: cygstart not searching $PATH
Lee D. Rothstein wrote: Chris Sutcliffe wrote: At one point I seem to remember cygstart would search the $PATH variable for an application? It absolutely did and was helpful with one or two problematic Windows apps. These problematic apps, that were helped by the non-standard use of 'cygstart', typically operate on a directory rather than file argument, and require startup in a directory different than the argument (to load one or more DLLs), if I remember correctly. I remember that finding that solution took a significant amount of trial and error. This doesn't work anymore, is this by design? As you say, it no longer works and I am am unable to start these problematic apps from a Windows command line, as a consequence. Oops. Cywin not Windows command line. Chris Lee -- 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
