X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4B4DF9EA.706@bopp.net> Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:50:50 -0600 From: Jeremy Bopp User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091204 Thunderbird/3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: various problems resulting from version 1.7.1 References: <20100113110947.GY14511@calimero.vinschen.de> <2BF01EB27B56CC478AD6E5A0A28931F2979795@A1DAL1SWPES19MB.ams.acs-inc.net> In-Reply-To: <2BF01EB27B56CC478AD6E5A0A28931F2979795@A1DAL1SWPES19MB.ams.acs-inc.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On 1/13/2010 10:32 AM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: > Another workaround would be from the mintty window to enter some > command that would bring up a Windows Command Prompt window so > that Windows FTP and Telnet would work. I tried the command "cmd", > but that executes within the mintty window. What command can I > enter from a mintty/bash prompt to open a Command Prompt window? > (Various archive searches were unsuccessful.) Try this: cygstart `which cmd` Maybe I missed your reasoning in an earlier message, but why not use Cygwin-based Telnet and FTP programs? You already have Cygwin installed, so adding two more packages should not be a problem. That way locale and terminal handling would just work without any need to try spawning cmd windows from Mintty. -Jeremy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple