From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 81532 invoked by alias); 11 Jun 2019 18:12:33 -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 81427 invoked by uid 89); 11 Jun 2019 18:12:33 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-3.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 spammy=Stewart, stewart X-HELO: Ishtar.sc.tlinx.org Received: from ishtar.tlinx.org (HELO Ishtar.sc.tlinx.org) (173.164.175.65) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 11 Jun 2019 18:12:32 +0000 Received: from [192.168.3.12] (Athenae [192.168.3.12]) by Ishtar.sc.tlinx.org (8.14.7/8.14.4/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id x5BICQ6r075154; Tue, 11 Jun 2019 11:12:29 -0700 Message-ID: <5CFFEF09.6010805@tlinx.org> Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2019 18:12:00 -0000 From: L A Walsh User-Agent: Thunderbird MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Windowless Perl References: <5eebff75b1f37a968325ed4fc7dce3a8@plebeian.com> <87a7epgs5t.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <3a0322aa51937847ea35009b77c1aa34@plebeian.com> In-Reply-To: <3a0322aa51937847ea35009b77c1aa34@plebeian.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2019-06/txt/msg00132.txt.bz2 On 2019/06/10 13:12, Chris Wagner wrote: > I didn't know about run, thanks for the tip. However when I use it to > launch something from the Start Menu Run command, it still pops open a > terminal window of some kind for a fraction of a second. I'm on Windows > 7. > Windows has a flag set in each EXE as to whether or not it is a console or GUI program. There are tools that can set the flag in a given EXE file. Perhaps that's similar to the util that Bill Stewart is talking about, dunno. -- 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