On Sep 30 12:07, Charles Wilson wrote: > Christopher Faylor wrote: > >On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 09:17:06AM -0600, Aaron Humphrey wrote: > > > >>I just did some version testing on the cygstart .mdb problem I reported a > >>few > >>days ago(http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-09/msg00923.html), and it is > >>indeed a regression from 1.5.18. Cygstart works fine with 1.5.18, but as > >>early as the 20050909 snapshot(as far back as I have)it fails on MDB > >>files. > > > > > >Sorry but I don't have Microsoft Access so I can't check this. I don't > >consider > >this a show-stopper either, unfortunately. > > > >cygstart comes from cygutils. I don't remember the genesis of this > >utility (just because it is in cygutils doesn't mean that Chuck is > >responsible for it) but it would be nice if the person who supports this > >utility would comment here. > > cygstart was contributed by Michael Schapp, who is still around but > doesn't post often. cygstart, aside from its option handling, is a very > simple app. The core routine just uses the Windows 'ShellExecute' > function on the specified file. Windows is then responsible for looking > up the associated application in the registry, starting it, and causing > it to load the specified file. I don't see how anything in cygwin > itself can affect that. > > The ONLY thing I can think of is changes in path handing (conversion > between 'unix' and 'windows') as cygstart tries to prepare the target > file's pathname for passing into the ShellExecute function -- variable > name 'aPath' in the code below. > > But I'll defer to Michael for futher analysis.
FWIW, I (my spouse, actually) just tested this with Access 2003, like this: $ cygstart /cygdrive/c/foo/bar/database-file.mdb once with 1.5.18 and once with 1.5.19 from current CVS (== latest snapshot) and both invocations happily started the database in Access. Maybe the OP should show us how he starts the mdb file when it fails. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
