On 8/18/2018 9:27 PM, Steven Penny wrote: > On Sat, 18 Aug 2018 20:47:31, cyg Simple wrote: >> You should give that a try. You can start with conhost and get a cmd >> session. > > it appears we have reached the bounds of your knowledge. trying to launch > conhost.exe on its own is a noop.
Maybe for you but not for me. > if you double click the EXE, or you > call it > from the run box, it will not show up in the task manager. if you ARE > seeing it, > its because you have launched one of these: > > - cmd.exe > - powershell.exe > - sh.exe > > and *it* has called conhost.exe. perhaps you should actually try this > before > commenting further. > No for me, again Win10, executing or clicking from File Explorer the conhost.exe program will open a cmd.exe window. -- cyg Simple -- 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