* Chris Powell (2004-03-21 03:52 +0100) > I currently use cygwin in WinXP to display X session from an AIX machine. > This works very well. The software on the AIX box can call a word processor > (Uniplex) on the AIX box to edit text files. What I'd like to do is instead > of launching the AIX word processor inside of the X session is launch Word > on the WinXP machine to edit the file out on an NFS. > > Another site is currently doing this, but they are all linux and OpenOffice. > The script on the AIX box does a rsh back to the linux box and opens OO word > processing with the text file on an NFS. > > It there anyway to do this back to a WinXP box?
MS Word is no X client to my knowledge - although answering the "question" in your subject: "Starting a Win32 app from inside Cygwin" is no problem at all - neither GUI nor command line (in most cases). Thorsten -- 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/
