From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24113 invoked by alias); 3 Mar 2002 13:50:24 -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 Received: (qmail 24000 invoked from network); 3 Mar 2002 13:50:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smtp.mscha.org) (212.238.192.16) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 3 Mar 2002 13:50:21 -0000 Received: from RATBERT.mscha.org (ratbert.local.mscha.org [192.168.0.52]) (authenticated) by smtp.mscha.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g23DoFr27065 for ; Sun, 3 Mar 2002 14:50:15 +0100 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20020303144528.02189b48@imap.local.mscha.org> X-Sender: ml@imap.local.mscha.org (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2002 05:50:00 -0000 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Michael Schaap Subject: Re: "start" for Cygwin In-Reply-To: <3C81B195.4000006@ece.gatech.edu> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020302225310.04d3ceb0@imap.local.mscha.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-SW-Source: 2002-03/txt/msg00128.txt.bz2 At 06:16 3-3-2002, Charles Wilson wrote: >Michael Schaap wrote: > >Hmmm...how does this differ from the "run" utility here: > >http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/users/cwilson/cygutils/unversioned/run/ > >It may be entirely different; I'm not sure. Certainly they were written >for different purposes. Run was intended to hide the console for GUI >programs that still expect a stdout/stderr console. Well, they seem somewhat related, but they do play different roles, and I don't think one can replace the other. (The code is very different, by the way. They use different APIs - "start" is essentially just a wrapper around the ShellExecute function.) >Run doesn't use popt :-( so it doesn't have pretty help, but it can be >compiled as a native windows app :-) > >Anyway, I personally have no objection to including start in cygutils -- >but the sudden appearance of a 'start.exe' command in /usr/bin (which >could hide WINNT/start.exe) may cause consternation in some quarters. > >FYI, I've just completed the following HOW-TO-CONTRIBUTE (to cygutils) >document. It will show up in /usr/doc/cygutils-X.Y.Z/ in the next release >of cygutils. OK, once the discussion settles, and the final name is decided, I'll make a contribution according to this document. Thanks, - Michael -- I always wondered about the meaning of life. So I looked it up in the dictionary under "L" and there it was - the meaning of life. It was not what I expected. - Dogbert -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/