Re: cygutils cygstart eats program arguments

2004-10-27 Thread Rolf Campbell
Dave Korn wrote: -Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Robert Schmidt Sent: 25 October 2004 22:56 Mark Paulus wrote: Have you tried using a -- to indicate end of arguments to cygstart: cygstart -- tail --version Thanks! No, I hadn't, and that works great. I still find the

RE: cygutils cygstart eats program arguments

2004-10-26 Thread Dave Korn
-Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Robert Schmidt Sent: 25 October 2004 22:56 Mark Paulus wrote: Have you tried using a -- to indicate end of arguments to cygstart: cygstart -- tail --version Thanks! No, I hadn't, and that works great. I still find

cygutils cygstart eats program arguments

2004-10-25 Thread Robert Schmidt
Hi! I'd like to use cygstart to launch a couple of log windows to monitor server activity, much like the Windows START command. However, cygstart eats *all* the arguments, not only the ones before the executable. Is there something I've missed? The usage suggests otherwise: Usage: cygstart

Re: cygutils cygstart eats program arguments

2004-10-25 Thread Robert Schmidt
Mark Paulus wrote: Have you tried using a -- to indicate end of arguments to cygstart: cygstart -- tail --version Thanks! No, I hadn't, and that works great. I still find the usage syntax to be misleading though: Usage: cygstart [OPTION]... FILE [ARGUMENTS] What are ARGUMENTS if not to be passed