Re: 1.7.0: Getting a Windows app to run synchronously to a script from which it is invoked

2009-03-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 23 20:01, Lee D. Rothstein wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 22 20:26, Lee D.Rothstein wrote: snip First of all, the explorer command does not stop input from the terminal. When I invoke the above script, I get an explorer window *and* I can type into the calling shell

RE: 1.7.0: Getting a Windows app to run synchronously to a script from which it is invoked

2009-03-24 Thread Thrall, Bryan
Corinna Vinschen wrote on Tuesday, March 24, 2009 5:17 AM: Hmm. What kind of softlink are you talking about? Is that a Windows shortcut created by Windows? Or is that a Cygwin symlink? If the latter, did you create the symlink way back when, or did you create the symlink under Cygwin 1.7?

Re: 1.7.0: Getting a Windows app to run synchronously to a script from which it is invoked

2009-03-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 24 08:37, Thrall, Bryan wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote on Tuesday, March 24, 2009 5:17 AM: Hmm. What kind of softlink are you talking about? Is that a Windows shortcut created by Windows? Or is that a Cygwin symlink? If the latter, did you create the symlink way back when, or did

Re: 1.7.0: Getting a Windows app to run synchronously to a script from which it is invoked

2009-03-23 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 22 20:26, Lee D.Rothstein wrote: This is in all probability, not a bug. I suspect it falls into CGF's category of works but isn't (wasn't) guaranteed. All of my scripts (developed under Cygwin 1.5 or earlier) that involve a Windows native app use: winapp $(cygpath -w $something)

Re: 1.7.0: Getting a Windows app to run synchronously to a script from which it is invoked

2009-03-23 Thread Sylvain RICHARD
Lee D.Rothstein wrote: This is in all probability, not a bug. I suspect it falls into CGF's category of works but isn't (wasn't) guaranteed. All of my scripts (developed under Cygwin 1.5 or earlier) that involve a Windows native app use: winapp $(cygpath -w $something) have stopped working

Re: 1.7.0: Getting a Windows app to run synchronously to a script from which it is invoked

2009-03-23 Thread Lee D. Rothstein
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 22 20:26, Lee D.Rothstein wrote: snip First of all, the explorer command does not stop input from the terminal. When I invoke the above script, I get an explorer window *and* I can type into the calling shell again because explorer is running detached.

1.7.0: Getting a Windows app to run synchronously to a script from which it is invoked

2009-03-22 Thread Lee D.Rothstein
This is in all probability, not a bug. I suspect it falls into CGF's category of works but isn't (wasn't) guaranteed. All of my scripts (developed under Cygwin 1.5 or earlier) that involve a Windows native app use: winapp $(cygpath -w $something) have stopped working properly since I

'cygstart' option? was Re: 1.7.0: Getting a Windows app to run synchronously to a script from which it is invoked

2009-03-22 Thread Lee D.Rothstein
I figured out a solution, but it still has limitations. The solution: It just requires doing a cd into the path (complete directory path) of the argument, and cd'ing into that path. If the command operates on a directory as Explorer does, then you submit '.' as the argument. If the command