Carlos, If you want to take advantage of the underlying file suffix associations, look into the "cygstart" command. If you don't have that program on your Cygwin installation, install the package "cygutils."
Otherwise, you can invoke Windows programs from a Cygwin shell. Just use the fully qualified path name of the executable (being careful to quote or escape as necessary when spaces or other characters special to the shell are present) or put the application's directory in the PATH you're using in Cygwin. Look into the "cygpath" for conversion between Cygwin / Unix / POSIX file and path names or PATH (-like) values and Windows or DOS equivalents. Randall Schulz Mountain View, CA USA At 04:35 2002-10-12, Carlos wrote: >How do I get windows to use cygwin to run programs? For example, I might >want to associate an action with .mak files that runs make on them. I would >now execute the make command in dos through command.com, but how would I >execute it in bash? Thanks. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
