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From: Robert Mecklenburg <mecklen AT comcast DOT net>
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Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 20:40:37 -0700
To: "Chris Powell" <powellca AT umich DOT edu>
cc: Cygwin Users List <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Starting a Win32 app from inside Cygwin
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RM> If I can restate your request as: "I want to use MS Word to edit a
RM> file that lives on my AIX machine."  The obvious answer is to install
RM> Samba on your AIX machine to allow file access from your PC.  This
RM> has nothing to do with X, rsh, or NFS.

CP> Yes, but I want Word to open on the XP machine editing the file on
CP> the AIX box all when called from a script on the AIX box.  The
CP> user will be viewing an X seesion from the AIX box in cygwin,
CP> execute a script and Word would then open locally.

How about running sshd on your Cygwin box and have your AIX script
run "ssh pc-host 'cygstart foo.doc'"?

Cheers,
-- 
Robert


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