On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Biju G C wrote:

>  --- Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha<at>cs<dot>nyu<dot>edu> wrote:

Please configure your mailer to not quote raw e-mail addresses in your
replies.  Let's not make the spam harvesters' job any easier.

> > This is a shell programming question (I use the terms "shell" and
> > "programming" loosely, since you're asking about the cmd.exe shell), and
> > as such is off-topic for this list.
> > Since I'm sending this anyway, you *can* do it in bash like this:
> > DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > I believe "set DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 & ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED]" will do
> > a similar thing in cmd.exe (not quite, but close).
>
> Thanks,
> my actual requirement was to run ssh using ShellExecuteEx
> The above method means i have run an extra "cmd.exe"
> which I wanted to avoid.
>
> Any way ShellExecuteEx with following argument is working
> SHELLEXECUTEINFO.lpFile as "cmd.exe"
> SHELLEXECUTEINFO.lpParameters and as
> "/c set DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 & ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Getting further and further off-topic...

Just set DISPLAY in your environment (using the Windows' equivalent of
putenv()) before calling ShellExecuteEx()...

Also, why not use CreateProcess() and pass in your environment settings
explicitly?
        Igor
-- 
                                http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/
      |\      _,,,---,,_                [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ZZZzz /,`.-'`'    -.  ;-;;,_            [EMAIL PROTECTED]
     |,4-  ) )-,_. ,\ (  `'-'           Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D.
    '---''(_/--'  `-'\_) fL     a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-.  Meow!

"I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route
to the bathroom is a major career booster."  -- Patrick Naughton

--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/

Reply via email to