Greetings, Ugly Leper! > Starting from a Windows Command Prompt, and using a syntax recommended > from years ago I still start a bash shell with > start /wait bin\bash (i.e. not just bin\bash) > and a mintty shell with
mintty is not a shell, it's a terminal emulator. > start bin\mintty (i.e. not just bin\mintty) > and yet experiment shows that both simplified forms in brackets "work". > Am I gaining / losing anything by sticking with the older longer > syntax, or can I just dive in, as in brackets? There's no gain or lose, it all depends on where and why you are using START. If it's from a shortcut, then both is just a waste of resources. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Wednesday, July 12, 2017 13:04:31 Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
