"start" for Cygwin

[Charles Wilson]

Michael Schaap wrote:


> (Chuck, if you think this would be a good addition for cygutils, feel 
> free to include it!  After all, I did "borrow" some of the code 
> framework from it.  :-) )


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.

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.

--Chuck


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