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Re: Spawning new window
"James E. LaBarre" wrote:
>
> Something I haven't been able to find in the documentation is how to
> spawn a new shell/window from within a cygwin window. For example, I'd
> like to open a telnet session to another machine (ideally, setting
> console colours while I'm at it; we do colour coding by system for our
> AIX systems) in a new window.
>
I just tried
rxvt &
and that gave me a new window. You could extend rxvt arguments to do
most of what you want. I used to have a shell script which started
different windows for rlogin'ing into different remote hosts.
Hope that helps.
Cheers
Don Sharp
> I've tried the Cygwin/Xfree setup, but that's far too slow over a dialup
> connection, while a straight ocnsole window would actually be acceptable
> (although it requires re-creating scripts usually run from the host
> machine).
>
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