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[Thorsten Kampe]

* Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] (Fri, 2 Jan 2009 12:10:17 -0500)
> 
> Thorsten Kampe wrote on Thursday, January 01, 2009 11:37 AM:
> > * Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] (Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:03:48 -0500)>
> >> Thorsten Kampe wrote on Wednesday, December 31, 2008 9:40 AM:
> >>> you have to use "start".
> >>
> >> Or "cygstart.exe"?
> >
> > Right. Although there is no real advantage to use that instead of
> > start.
> 
> On XP there is no start.exe.  (98se )  So you have to use
>         cmd /c start
> 
> The main advantage of cygstart is that it understands POSIX paths.
> 
> I seem to remember that sometimes quoting can be simpler with cygstart
> than with `cmd /c start'.

We were talking about launching applications from a batch script. In 
regard to batch files I have to say that your considerations - which are 
absolutely correct - are not relevant.

Thorsten


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