XEmacs 21.4.14 appears to prevent W32 processes from exiting

2004-02-01 Thread Andre Srinivasan
: $ uname -rv 1.5.7(0.109/3/2) 2004-01-30 19:32 I noticed when I am running the Cygwin packaged version of XEmacs, programs like Opera, IE, etc never quite exit when I quit them (i.e. all windows close but process is still show in task manager); I need to go into the task manager to explicitly ki

Re: cygstart foo.pdf results in 'AcroRd32.exe has generated errors'

2002-12-02 Thread Andre Srinivasan
e> What happens when you run acrobat directly from the cygwin terminal e> without using cygstart? or what about running e> \winnt\system32\cmd.exe /K \path\to\acrobat? Invoking 'acrord32 foo.pdf' directly from a cygwin terminal (rxvt) causes a Dr. Watson. Invoking it via 'cmd /k 'c:\Program File

Re: cygstart foo.pdf results in 'AcroRd32.exe has generated errors'

2002-12-02 Thread Andre Srinivasan
BB> What happens using plain start (C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\start.exe)? I can't seem to find start.exe on my W2K box. -andre. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/

Re: cygstart foo.pdf results in 'AcroRd32.exe has generated errors'

2002-12-02 Thread Andre Srinivasan
... CW> function pdfv () { CW> cygstart /d/Program\ Files/Adobe/Acrobat\ 5.0/Reader/AcroRd32.exe CW> \"`cygpath -w -a $1`\" & CW> } I get the same Dr. Watson when I try the above. I agree, I don't think it's cygstart, but it feels like there is a race condition or mutex issue exposed w

cygstart foo.pdf results in 'AcroRd32.exe has generated errors'

2002-12-02 Thread Andre Srinivasan
I noticed sometime in August or September that I could no longer invoke acroreader (v5.0.5) via cygstart or directly from AcroRd32 if I wanted to view a document. If I do invoke either, I get a Dr. Watson (which I've appended). On the otherhand, if I invoke IE and pass it the file to open, acror

Re: Can't figure out how to pass command arguments via cygstart

2002-09-20 Thread Andre Srinivasan
... AS> Works for me. Add it to the man page and we'll call it a feature. IP> It already IS a feature. The getopt function will stop processing IP> switches when it encounters the '--' option. You know that and I know that (now). I was just suggesting that adding this to the man page will el

Re: Can't figure out how to pass command arguments via cygstart

2002-09-20 Thread Andre Srinivasan
... MS> There is a workaround, though. You can use MS>cygstart --hide -- foo -s Works for me. Add it to the man page and we'll call it a feature. -andre. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cy