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Re: bash and cmd launch differenlty?


--- Eugene Kanter <eugene@bgs.com> wrote:
> Some applications behave radically different been launched from bash.exe
> and cmd.exe. One example is msidb.exe which is a part of Miscrosoft
> Installer SDK (flreely available for download).
> 
> Anyone know how to start from bash so application will think it started
> from cmd?

cmd /c myapp

or

command /c myapp

The /c tells the shell to execute the single command and exit.
===
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Earnie Boyd <mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>

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