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Re: The Beauty of Cygstart
Igor Peshansky <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu> wrote in
Pine.GSO.4.63.0603240851170.16018@access1.cims.nyu.edu:">news:Pine.GSO.4.63.0603240851170.16018@access1.cims.nyu.edu:
> On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, zzapper wrote:
>
>> zzapper <david@XXXX.XX.XX> wrote in
>> Xns979065E51F443zzappergmailcom@80.91.229.5:">news:Xns979065E51F443zzappergmailcom@80.91.229.5:
>
> Even it if's your own, <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>.
>
>> Whoops forget the vital & (launch in own process)
>>
>> function cs() {cygstart *$1* &}
>> function csn() {cygstart "$(/bin/ls -t *.* | head -1)" &}
>> function csl() { cygstart.exe *$(history -1 | sed "s/.* //g")* & }
>
> The "&" isn't needed for cygstart, as it simply tells the shell to
> execute the proper association and exits. The only point at which
> backgrounding would help is the short time it takes for the shell to
> figure out what the association is (nearly instantaneous on my
> machine).
Drat!!
Igor,
Its funny how easy it is to "panic" when posting to a newsgroup, i've
never NEEDED the & myself, but some reason when I did a quick test the
application hung and I jumped to wrong conclusion!
Dave
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