On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 12:00:32AM +0100, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Sat, 25 Nov 2006, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > > > >> No, replacing with double quotes does not work either. But at least LyX is > >> started and no Buffer is opened. > >> > >> I've tried that instead but LyX crashes :-/ > >> > >> lyx-qt4.exe UserGuide.lyx -x "command-sequence buffer-begin ; repeat 100 > >> screen-down ; lyx-quit" > > > > I think command.com has no idea about quoting arguments. Instead it is > > probably up to the program to notice that an argument starts with a '"' > > and then combine subsequent arguments... *sigh*. At least this is my > > experience from a long time ago with .bat-files and some program on > > Windows (possibly 98). > > Indeed, might be a good time to re-install cygwin.
While I could only endorse such decision ;-), I have to say that the following works in a cmd terminal (I tested it with the native build by Joost): lyx -x "command-sequence file-open UserGuide.lyx ; repeat 10 screen-down ; lyx-quit" -- Enrico
