From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28408 invoked by alias); 19 Oct 2005 14:50:26 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 28386 invoked by uid 22791); 19 Oct 2005 14:50:20 -0000 Received: from c-24-61-23-223.hsd1.ma.comcast.net (HELO cgf.cx) (24.61.23.223) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 14:50:20 +0000 Received: by cgf.cx (Postfix, from userid 201) id 9213713C101; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 14:50:18 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 14:50:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Problems opening files from run menu Message-ID: <20051019145018.GD3521@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-SW-Source: 2005-10/txt/msg00580.txt.bz2 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. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/