From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 101365 invoked by alias); 12 Jul 2017 23:25:52 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 101357 invoked by uid 89); 12 Jul 2017 23:25:51 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=gaining, H*R:D*ca, sticking, Prompt X-HELO: smtp-out-no.shaw.ca Received: from smtp-out-no.shaw.ca (HELO smtp-out-no.shaw.ca) (64.59.134.12) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 12 Jul 2017 23:25:50 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.100] ([24.64.240.204]) by shaw.ca with SMTP id VR0tdtGULrztEVR0udKK3Q; Wed, 12 Jul 2017 17:25:48 -0600 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.2 cv=M/89E24s c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=MVEHjbUiAHxQW0jfcDq5EA==:117 a=MVEHjbUiAHxQW0jfcDq5EA==:17 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=5ZKbAp1dW_oIo6GutgUA:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 Reply-To: Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca Subject: Re: Starting from a Windows Command Prompt References: <1cc1103d-708a-868d-c513-cc0dac4656e6@SystematicSw.ab.ca> <49340806.20170712231509@yandex.ru> To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Brian Inglis Message-ID: <4b21d6ac-25c8-9f6e-9af7-f2420774120d@SystematicSw.ab.ca> Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2017 23:25:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.2.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <49340806.20170712231509@yandex.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-CMAE-Envelope: MS4wfPru/BmADEvLpmr/1b3ueAorfFVqY1VfxdYoPZ7FrFb6UpL1tsRgoZteM9iYmZXCIlf7kQLqhmMUo7faIGbbF5Q0S03NUkSUl0eN7/wNc+r5cfr94zwL i9+5wfE9Na6lg5ub1DAeAshR9UowIhEYgSzE/ms7nOql1/l1qBha4shP8iwYuJs4a6iB3RUgk5XoLw== X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-07/txt/msg00215.txt.bz2 On 2017-07-12 14:15, Andrey Repin wrote: > Brian Inglis wrote: >> On 2017-07-12 00:16, Ugly Leper wrote: >>> Starting from a Windows Command Prompt, and using a syntax recommended >>> from years ago I still start a bash shell with >>> start /wait bin\bash (i.e. not just bin\bash) >>> and a mintty shell with >>> start bin\mintty (i.e. not just bin\mintty) >>> and yet experiment shows that both simplified forms in brackets "work". >>> Am I gaining / losing anything by sticking with the older longer >>> syntax, or can I just dive in, as in brackets? > >> Running with start, like cygstart, spawns a separate window process > > Not necessarily. > Ref: START /B Only in that case does it start a background console process sharing the cmd window for output, like Unix shell jobs, but the program apparently goes squirrelly if it tries to do any console input, although msg and dialogue boxes work. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple