On 4/3/2012 8:34 PM, raf wrote:
Eliot Moss wrote:
My suggestion would be to read up on the cygpath utility
program and use it to convert cygwin paths to ones suitable
for a non-cygwin program, etc. I launch non-cygwin programs
all the time on Windows 7 that way ...
Regards -- Eliot Moss
Hi,
Thanks but I'm using a non-cygwin path already.
I am not using a cygwin path that needs to be
converted to anything.
Except you wrote F:/blah which is *not* a Windows
path. F:\blah is ...
Hence my suggestion.
If it's of any help, here is what I do for launching
Word on a file from cygwin; similar functions work for
Excel, Acrobat, etc.:
In my .bashrc file:
...
alias word=winword
...
function winword {
local ARG
[ -n "$1" ] && { ARG="$(cygpath -wa "$1")"; shift; }
command winword ${ARG:+"${ARG}"} "$@" &
}
...
The rest of the setup is:
1) ~/bin is on my PATH
2) ~/bin/winword is a cygwin symbolic link (ln -s) to
/c/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Office/Office12/WINWORD.EXE
This does the right thing even for a path that starts /cygdrive/c/...
etc.
Eliot Moss
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