From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 47451 invoked by alias); 12 Jul 2017 06:16:52 -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 47440 invoked by uid 89); 12 Jul 2017 06:16:51 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_SORBS_SPAM,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=gaining, sticking, Hx-languages-length:467, you! X-HELO: mail-qk0-f176.google.com Received: from mail-qk0-f176.google.com (HELO mail-qk0-f176.google.com) (209.85.220.176) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 12 Jul 2017 06:16:50 +0000 Received: by mail-qk0-f176.google.com with SMTP id 16so11012461qkg.2 for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2017 23:16:50 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to; bh=t3iSTdBD1m3Sq4dKpS4B34ehMcLccWpCDSsyA8ocPPc=; b=gWvBL8yQga+Q9lutoIdAkrgcW5V6+89sSUVz2nIy+6G8a/hVOmFKDjaHqoQ0Z9txi0 nnZ9KuXBqhBtTZ7ParpvgIqZk72QD8Pm28P5TQHq1tvnlYINP+Z0/Vs7tJwskwTCyMAG 4VRCM0qYTu/QyfFzDkXeNRoiT17cRK51opKoOEMrFrIWoths+97KncL3vsPN/pXiNftx 0029SYcxoSlvqlMm3dWLxUlykKQTxTa5f/s1hjz6YmAbIi8//ved++ACTFUPiHG59iun M81ZZcP8aHVRp/knBvS332cEcAlHMdkdQDv583msNjfd2h4+JaCRuLv6garO4gaLoiMJ GfUQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AIVw110FMRYIcL3LJ/d+JtVmCi0TgGu03XiIfH7bQhUglCJW0KlW+n8N WNAYfcVNxci9/FNFRspBhhvOVLMopg== X-Received: by 10.55.160.14 with SMTP id j14mr2741609qke.196.1499840208778; Tue, 11 Jul 2017 23:16:48 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.140.92.86 with HTTP; Tue, 11 Jul 2017 23:16:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Ugly Leper Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2017 06:16:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Starting from a Windows Command Prompt To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-SW-Source: 2017-07/txt/msg00203.txt.bz2 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? Thank you! -- 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