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Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 22:28:45 +0100
From: Don Sharp <dwsharp AT iee DOT org>
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"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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