Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! >> But I still need to see a practical example of >> running a M$ program like ping and stopping it with Ctrl+C >> without CMD (or another shell).
> Why don't you just try it? On W7: Start Menu ->> Run... -> Enter "ping -t cygwin.com" -> Start Task Manager ->> Observe the absence of cmd.exe but the presence of conhost.exe -> > Press Ctrl-C in the ping console window. That would work for, basically, any Windows version, starting WinNT. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@freemail.ru) 07.08.2012, <18:20> 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