Re: cygutils cygstart eats program arguments

2004-10-27 Thread Rolf Campbell
Dave Korn wrote: -Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Robert Schmidt Sent: 25 October 2004 22:56 Mark Paulus wrote: Have you tried using a -- to indicate end of arguments to cygstart: cygstart -- tail --version Thanks! No, I hadn't, and that works great. I still find the usa

RE: cygutils cygstart eats program arguments

2004-10-26 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Robert Schmidt > Sent: 25 October 2004 22:56 > Mark Paulus wrote: > > Have you tried using a -- to indicate end of arguments > > to cygstart: > > > > cygstart -- tail --version > > > > Thanks! No, I hadn't, and that works great. >

Re: cygutils cygstart eats program arguments

2004-10-25 Thread Robert Schmidt
Mark Paulus wrote: Have you tried using a -- to indicate end of arguments to cygstart: cygstart -- tail --version Thanks! No, I hadn't, and that works great. I still find the usage syntax to be misleading though: Usage: cygstart [OPTION]... FILE [ARGUMENTS] What are ARGUMENTS if not to be passed t

Re: cygutils cygstart eats program arguments

2004-10-25 Thread Mark Paulus
Have you tried using a -- to indicate end of arguments to cygstart: cygstart -- tail --version On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 20:50:05 +0200, Robert Schmidt wrote: >Hi! >I'd like to use cygstart to launch a couple of log windows to monitor >server activity, much like the Windows START command. However,