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Re: launch a win32 process from bash?
- From: "Michael A Chase" <mchase at ix dot netcom dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 17:21:46 -0800
- Subject: Re: launch a win32 process from bash?
- References: <Pine.WNT.4.44.0203011935070.1444-100000@TWAIN>
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonathan Simms" <jonathan@embassynetworks.com>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 16:37
Subject: launch a win32 process from bash?
> I was wondering if it were possible to launch a win32 process from
> within cygwin. (i.e. run a windows program in windows, but invoke it from
> bash).
Certainly, but you may need to convert the arguments to Win32 format since
most Windows programs don't understand POSIZ paths. The utility cygpath is
available to help.
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