Greetings, L A Walsh! > On 2019/06/10 13:12, Chris Wagner wrote: >> I didn't know about run, thanks for the tip. However when I use it to >> launch something from the Start Menu Run command, it still pops open a >> terminal window of some kind for a fraction of a second. I'm on Windows >> 7. >> > Windows has a flag set in each EXE as to whether or not it is a console > or GUI program. There are tools that can set the flag in a given EXE file.
It's not a flag, it's an exported function. If a program exports winmain(), it's a gui program, if it exports main(), it's a console program. > Perhaps that's similar to the util that Bill Stewart is talking about, > dunno. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Tuesday, June 18, 2019 18:26:18 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