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Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:37:48 -0500
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Subject: Batch file code to launch rxvt pointed elsewhere than $HOME -- what's  wrong with my code?
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I'm trying to write batch scripts of the kind that start a Cygwin 
session in rxvt from the desktop, with the added feature that the 
session starts in a folder other than $HOME. I want to do this for two 
folders I use often.

I know urxvt has a -cd command, and thought rxvt in Cygwin did too. I 
tried this code
> @echo off
>
> C:
> chdir C:\cygwin\bin
>
> start rxvt -display :0 -sl 2500 -sr -tn rxvt-cygwin-native -geometry 80x25 -font "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-14" -e /bin/bash --login -i -cd /cygdrive/c/blu/newest/
>
> exit
The results are that I see an RXVT window for about a blink or two, then 
nothing. With slight modifications (such as invoking a shell script -- 
tested and working otherwise -- to do the directory change for me), I'm 
getting "flashes" or "there-&-gones" by both the Command prompt and rxvt.

I have only found one archived post on the mailing list where someone 
was trying to do exactly this thing. It was posted in the first half of 
2009, if I remember correctly. No solution was posted to that thread.

I find it hard to believe this isn't possible, or that such a thing as 
the "right combination" of batch and shell script code can't accomplish 
it. I'd have to be persuaded this was the case before I gave up 
altogether, with information and/or insights that drew upon the flaws of 
Cygwin or Windows or both in tandem.

Hope someone can give this another look and offer advice.

SJ Wright

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flavors.    - Distillation of two observations made by my brother and me 
within the last decade

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