RE: how to start windows applications

["Morche Matthias" <Matthias dot Morche at P7S1Produktion dot de>]

"start" is a builtin of cmd.

try "cygstart a.xls" instead.

  matthias




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Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 11:23 AM
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Subject: how to start windows applications


i've just installed cygwin and am noticing some inconsistencies between
executing commands from the command line versus executing them through a
batch file. for example when I try to do

start excel a.xls

I get "bash: start: command not found"

but if I put this in a batch file, a.bat say, and the subsequently
executing
a.bat the the cmd line, it works fine.
Another one is changing directories. Say I'm in C: and I'd like to
change to
U:\temp. The following sequence works in the batch file but not at the
command line:

U:
cd \temp

Any help will be much appreciated!





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