RE: "start" for Cygwin

["Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>]

I think cygstart or something like that will eliminate the potiential
for touble.

Rob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Starks-Browning [mailto:starksb@ebi.ac.uk] 
> Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2002 8:32 PM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: RE: "start" for Cygwin
> 
> 
> On Saturday 2 Mar 02, Stephan Mueller writes:
> > Note though, that on Win9x, start is a standalone file (I forget if 
> > it's start.exe or start.com) on the path. Cygwin still 
> supports 9x, so 
> > fears about consternation in some quarters still apply 
> (it's just that 
> > they're different quarters than Charles originally had in mind :-)
> 
> I use Win9x, and I don't think it's a problem for the 
> cygutils package to introduce /usr/bin/start.  People who 
> install the cygutils package can probably figure out what's going on.
> 
> My opinion, anyway.
> 
> David
> 
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