Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Robert Mecklenburg MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16480.63191.968000.607858@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 19:47:51 -0700 To: "Chris Powell" Cc: Subject: Re: Starting a Win32 app from inside Cygwin In-Reply-To: <006b01c40eef$90e95580$6401a8c0@kids> References: <006b01c40eef$90e95580$6401a8c0 AT kids> CP> I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction here, CP> though I'm not even sure this is possible. CP> CP> I currently use cygwin in WinXP to display X session from an AIX CP> machine. This works very well. The software on the AIX box can CP> call a word processor (Uniplex) on the AIX box to edit text files. CP> What I'd like to do is instead of launching the AIX word processor CP> inside of the X session is launch Word on the WinXP machine to CP> edit the file out on an NFS. CP> CP> Another site is currently doing this, but they are all linux and CP> OpenOffice. The script on the AIX box does a rsh back to the CP> linux box and opens OO word processing with the text file on an CP> NFS. CP> CP> It there anyway to do this back to a WinXP box? If I can restate your request as: "I want to use MS Word to edit a file that lives on my AIX machine." The obvious answer is to install Samba on your AIX machine to allow file access from your PC. This has nothing to do with X, rsh, or NFS. Hope this helps, -- Robert -- 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/