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RE: naive request: Cygwin and Windows/DOS program
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- Subject: RE: naive request: Cygwin and Windows/DOS program
- From: Paul Stodghill <stodghil at cs dot cornell dot edu>
- Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 13:56:19 -0400
Do you want something that translated the command line arguments between
the two environments? Shell scripts are your friend...
milhouse% cat `which iexplorer`
#!/bin/sh
CMD='//C/Program Files/Internet Explorer/IEXPLORE.EXE'
if [ "$1" -a -e "$1" ] ; then
D="`dirname \"$1\"`"
D="`cd \"$D\" ; pwd`"
F="`basename \"$1\"`"
P="$D/$F"
W="`cygpath -w \"$P\"`"
exec "$CMD" "$W" &
else
exec "$CMD" &
fi
milhouse%
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jerome G. Benoit [mailto:jgmbenoit@wanadoo.fr]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 1:31 PM
> To: Cygnus list
> Subject: naive request: Cygwin and Windows/DOS program
>
>
> Hi !
>
> Is there a simple trick to use Windows/DOS program under Cygnus/bash:
> e.g. I want to use my favorite Windows editor [namely WinEdt] under
> bash,
> but unfortunetly I cannot use carelessly because of links,mounts,...
>
> Note that there are a lot of canditate for this: TeX stuff,
> ghostscript,...
>
> Thanks inadvance,
> jerome BENOIT
>
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