On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 11:50:52AM +0000, Angus Leeming wrote: > Enrico Forestieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I am using Win2k sp4. I am surprised that this makes a difference. > > However, I notice that if I use forward slashes in the path to lyx.exe, > > it indeed starts hidden and I have to kill it from Task Manager... > > Windows really drives me mad... > > I suspect that there is a problem with the little wrapper program. If memory > serves me right, most of the code was a command line parser that uses '/' to > indicate an option is coming.
Yes, that's true, but it stops looking for options whenever a new word doesn't start with '/'. So, if you specify a full path (comprising a drive letter) or quote the path (in case it starts with a '/'), everything is fine. > Why not hack the parser to use '-' --- if you need the options at all, which I > suspect you don't... Maybe... > Further, if you're correct and /foo/bar causes problems, then why not > transform such paths to \foo\bar form before spawning lyx.exe? This is what happens on win2k. According to Bo, lyx.exe is hidden on winxp when use either '/' or '\' as a path delimiter. -- Enrico
