On 2/3/06, Igor Peshansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 3 Feb 2006, David Picton wrote: > > > I have encountered a strange bug when starting Microsoft Word when it is > > started by the cygstart command, e.g. "cygstart Index.doc", with the > > current version of the Cygwin dll. > > > > The symptoms are as follows: > > > > 1. Word appears to start normally, and the file can be edited on screen.
[snip] > > 3. Attempting to save the file gets no response. The only way to close > > the window is to exit without saving! [snip] > > Sounds like an instance of > <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-05/msg00587.html>... Does it work if > you "cygstart cmd" and then start word from that cmd shell? If you get > the same symptoms, please run "set" in that cmd window and compare the > output with the same in a cmd started via "Start->Run"... I get the same symptoms, and now I can see what the problem is. The CMD window shows that TEMP and TMP have retained Cygwin-style pathnames: TEMP=/cygdrive/c/DOCUME~1/dave/LOCALS~1/Temp TMP=/cygdrive/c/DOCUME~1/dave/LOCALS~1/Temp Word works OK if I set TMP to a proper Windows pathname e.g. D:\cygwin\tmp > > Do you get the same problem if you use "run winword.exe filename"? Which > version of Word are you trying to use? No. Everything worked normally when I did the following: export PATH='/cygdrive/c/program files/microsoft office/office11':"$PATH" run winword paper1.doc The problem seems to be specific to commands started by cygstart (with the current Cygwin dll) but isn't specific to one version of Word - I've seen it with both Word 2003 and Word 2000. -- 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/
