Re: Cygstart bug: doesn't keep command line arguments intact

2012-08-06 Thread John Wiersba
From: Adam Dinwoodie >John Wiersba wrote: >>P.S. I don't know why, but my reply kept getting rejected as spam by >>cygwin.org's filters, even though I was using yahoo's "plain text" mode: >> >>  Remote host said: 552 spam score exceeded threshold (#5.6.1) [BODY] > >See http://cygwin.com/ml/#spam

RE: Cygstart bug: doesn't keep command line arguments intact

2012-08-06 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
ned. - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. From: "Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]" Sent: Sunday, August 5, 2012 2:38 PM Subject: RE: Cygstart bug: doesn't keep command line arguments intact John Wiersb

RE: Cygstart bug: doesn't keep command line arguments intact

2012-08-06 Thread Adam Dinwoodie
John Wiersba wrote: >P.S. I don't know why, but my reply kept getting rejected as spam by >cygwin.org's filters, even though I was using yahoo's "plain text" mode: > > Remote host said: 552 spam score exceeded threshold (#5.6.1) [BODY] See http://cygwin.com/ml/#spam for how to avoid that. Also,

Re: Cygstart bug: doesn't keep command line arguments intact

2012-08-05 Thread John Wiersba
Thanks for your reply, Barry.  Yes, it seems that way to me, too.  But that seems wrong.  I would think that cygstart should pass arg1 as arg1 to the specified command (winword.exe in my example).  That's certainly the way it works in the unix/linux world and cygstart should be considered as an

RE: Cygstart bug: doesn't keep command line arguments intact

2012-08-05 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
John Wiersba wrote August 03, 2012 3:18 PM >Calling /c/program\ files/microsoft\ office/office12/winword.exe >"a b c.doc" works. >Calling cygstart /c/program\ files/microsoft\ office/office12/winword.exe "a b >c.doc" tries to open a.doc, b.doc, and c.doc. In the first, bash strips t

Cygstart bug: doesn't keep command line arguments intact

2012-08-03 Thread John Wiersba
Calling  /c/program\ files/microsoft\ office/office12/winword.exe "a b c.doc" works.  Calling cygstart /c/program\ files/microsoft\ office/office12/winword.exe "a b c.doc" tries to open a.doc, b.doc, and c.doc. I couldn't find this reported in the mailing list archives. -- Problem