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Re: launch a win32 process from bash?


----- 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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