On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Dave Hooper wrote: > You know what I would do? I'd write a tiny .exe (for Win32) wrapper around > cmd.exe and use that to execute your .bat which in turn spawns bash, etc. > Why? Because as far as I know there's no way to instruct a shortcut to 'run > hidden' (you can run Minimized, though). > > [snip] > > But, if the command shell window is 'really very' annoying, write a cheesy > .exe that does a CreateProcess() on cmd.exe and specifies the SW_HIDE flag > on launch.
There is a program already that does exactly that. Check out <http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/users/cwilson/cygutils/run/index.html>. Igor > [snip] > dave > > > From: "Mutiso, Anthony" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I am searching for way to build Explorer shell integration tools > > that I can call from say the Explorer "Send To" menu and have it > > execute a shell script without the annoying DOS shell. -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Oh, boy, virtual memory! Now I'm gonna make myself a really *big* RAMdisk! -- /usr/games/fortune -- 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/
