Older versions of cygstart did not replace the file names with absolute
windows paths. This was better since the ShellExecute function will
search the path for a command. And, if it doesn't find it in the path,
it will look in the registry. So you can 'cygstart calc', 'cygstart
winword', 'cygstart services.msc', etc.
This can be accomplished by changing
CCP_POSIX_TO_WIN_W
to
CCP_POSIX_TO_WIN_W|CCP_RELATIVE
the two places it appears.
Interestingly, ShellExecute also accepts certain non-filename strings
for "shell namespace objects".
For example:
Drives (My computer)
::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}
Control Panel
::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\::{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}
You can try these out with the Run command on the Windows start menu or
the CMD.EXE START command.
This last one doesn't work in cygstart even after the CCP_RELATIVE
change is made. This is not because of any bug in cygstart, though, so
I'll save it for another email.
Ken Hirsch
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