X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4A485654.4090708@tlinx.org> Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:51:16 -0700 From: Linda Walsh User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Windows/20090605) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Launching CMD.EXE windows from cygwin bash (answer found) References: In-Reply-To: X-Stationery: 0.4.9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Taylor wrote: > Hmmm. I can't post a response to my own post. > > Well, here's a new thread as a response to my previous thread. > > Looking one last time, I found the answer: > > to launch a cmd.exe window: cmd /c start cmd > to launch a bash.exe window: cmd /c /start bash ------- Didn't see your question, but if you wanted to open a new cmd window with the command in it, you could also use "cygstart cmd.exe" or "cygstart bash.exe" -- 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