"start" for Cygwin

Sun Mar 3 05:50:00 GMT 2002

At 06:16 3-3-2002, Charles Wilson wrote:
>Michael Schaap wrote:
>>Hmmm...how does this differ from the "run" utility here:
>>http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/users/cwilson/cygutils/unversioned/run/
>>It may be entirely different; I'm not sure. Certainly they were written 
>for different purposes. Run was intended to hide the console for GUI 
>programs that still expect a stdout/stderr console.

Well, they seem somewhat related, but they do play different roles, and I 
don't think one can replace the other.
(The code is very different, by the way. They use different APIs - "start" 
is essentially just a wrapper around the ShellExecute function.)
>Run doesn't use popt :-( so it doesn't have pretty help, but it can be 
>compiled as a native windows app :-)
>>Anyway, I personally have no objection to including start in cygutils -- 
>but the sudden appearance of a 'start.exe' command in /usr/bin (which 
>could hide WINNT/start.exe) may cause consternation in some quarters.
>>FYI, I've just completed the following HOW-TO-CONTRIBUTE (to cygutils) 
>document. It will show up in /usr/doc/cygutils-X.Y.Z/ in the next release 
>of cygutils.

OK, once the discussion settles, and the final name is decided, I'll make a 
contribution according to this document.
Thanks,
 - Michael
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