Request a tiny custom app again

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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > Request a tiny custom app again

Freezy: Aug 26, 2005; I probably sucked Funky's large meaty cock for this account.

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I would like to request an application that runs it's argument, silently, in the background.

I'm using Cygwin with it's X server, but it seems to like to pop up a command prompt when you run it, and there is no switch to disable it. Someone made a "RunHidden.exe" for it, but the link is long dead

So, RunHidden.exe X.exe should launch X in the background. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be as easy as setting the verbosity to zero and piping to NUL

Cygwin actually has an application for this hidden away, "run". It runs an application with a hidden console. I had to hunt for a bit to find it, but it's exactly what I need.

Freezy fucked around with this message at 01:52 on Apr 14, 2007

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