This really isn't a correct mailing list for this question, but, since it's been asked here before, and will, undoubtedly, be asked here again, I will pretend it's about "the interaction of windows programs and Cygwin programs" and answer it:
At a command (DOS) prompt, type "help start". As an alternative, consider starting windows programs from bash and backgrounding them (e.g., "vncviewer.exe &"). Igor On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, a12 wrote: > Igor, > Thank you for your quick reply. > > It works perfectly. > > Now I would like to incorporate a start of vncviewer.exe after the bash > command into the same .bat file. I have tried: > > C: > chdir C:\Program Files\RealVNC > vncviewer.exe > chdir C:\cygwin\bin > bash --login -c "ssh -T -L 5901:derqjzp:5900 -C -N isoft@derqjzp" > > but this start vncviewer, and waits until I enter hostid. bash > is never started. > > Any hints here ? > > Pardon me if this question does not belong to this mailing > list. > > Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, a12 wrote: > > > > > Hello gurus, > > > > > > For the time being I start SSH manually: > > > open DOS window > > > C:\cygwin\cygwin.bat > > > ssh -T -L 5901:derqjzp:5900 -C -N isoft@derqjzp > > > <isoft's password> > > > > > > I have tried to include the ssh command above in cygwin.bat but > > > obviously bash does not read it. > > > How do I make bash to read the ssh command in cygwin.bat ? > > > > 'bash --login -c "ssh -T -L 5901:derqjzp:5900 -C -N isoft@derqjzp"' > > Try "man bash" for details. > > Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Oh, boy, virtual memory! Now I'm gonna make myself a really *big* RAMdisk! -- /usr/games/fortune -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/