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Does cygstart always expand arguments?
- From: Jim Kleckner <jek-cygwin at kleckner dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 14:32:35 -0700
- Subject: Does cygstart always expand arguments?
I was trying to get cygpath and cygstart to launch
a non-cygwin-compiled program (gvim) and running
into difficulties with files that have spaces in
them. e.g.:
echo hello > "file with spaces.txt"
cygstart gvim "file with spaces.txt"
causes gvim to see three files, "file",
"with", and "spaces.txt".
Is this a basic Windows limitation or is there
some hack to get around this? cygstart appears to
be the dead end.
Thanks - Jim
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