Re: cygstart not searching $PATH

2009-08-22 Thread Lee D. Rothstein
Lee D. Rothstein wrote: Chris Sutcliffe wrote: > At one point I seem to remember cygstart would search the $PATH > variable for an application? It absolutely did and was helpful with one or two problematic Windows apps. These problematic apps, that were helped by the non-standard use of 'cygst

Re: cygstart not searching $PATH

2009-08-22 Thread Lee D. Rothstein
Chris Sutcliffe wrote: > At one point I seem to remember cygstart would search the $PATH > variable for an application? It absolutely did and was helpful with one or two problematic Windows apps. These problematic apps, that were helped by the non-standard use of 'cygstart', typically operate on

cygstart not searching $PATH

2009-08-21 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
At one point I seem to remember cygstart would search the $PATH variable for an application? For example, I believe you could type 'cygstart calc' and it would start calc.exe. This doesn't work anymore, is this by design? Chris -- Chris Sutcliffe http://emergedesktop.org -- Problem reports: