how to start windows applications
Morche Matthias
Matthias.Morche@P7S1Produktion.de
Wed Sep 17 09:49:00 GMT 2008
"start" is a builtin of cmd.
try "cygstart a.xls" instead.
matthias
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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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