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From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Problems opening files from run menu
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 14:50:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051019145018.GD3521@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dj5lpi$ok7$1@sea.gmane.org>

On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 04:38:43PM +0200, Paminu wrote:
>I have a xfig file in:
>
>c:\cygwin\home\test\test.fig
>
>I can open this xfig file from the run menu like:
>bash --login -e startxprog xfig c:/cygwin/home/test/test.fig
>
>I also have a .dvi file in:
>c:\cygwin\home\test\test.dvi
>
>But when I type:
>bash --login -e startxprog xdvi c:/cygwin/home/test/test.dvi
>
>Nothing happens. Why is it possible to open a file like this with xfig but 
>not with xdvi???

How about using UNIX-like paths rather than Windows paths, that being
one the main reasons for Cygwin's existence?

  bash --login -e startxprog xdvi /home/test/test.dvi

Otherwise, http://cygwin.com/problems.html would be interesting reading.

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  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-19 14:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-19 14:45 Paminu
2005-10-19 14:50 ` Christopher Faylor [this message]
2005-10-19 15:28   ` Paminu
2005-10-19 15:37     ` Christopher Faylor
2005-10-21  2:47     ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)

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