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On 2019-03-28 05:36, Steven Penny wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Mar 2019 08:34:34, Thomas Wolff wrote:
>> Mintty can be used to run any command-line application directly (like top,
>> your editor, ...), a shell is not needed.
> 
> That may be true, the by default Mintty is configure to load Bash. So it is
> disingenuous so simply say that it does not require a shell, unless you want to
> change the default to load "top" as you said.

I found it useful to create a mintty info alias xinfo c.f. xman; likewise to
launch cygwin32 and WSL distro commands or terms in windows from Cygwin64/X.

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