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Gary Johnson <garyjohn <at> spocom.com> writes:
>     mintty -e tail -f foo &
> 
> The -e is optional, but I like keeping my mintty commands consistent
> with those I write for other terminals.
> 
> HTH,
> Gary
> 
> 

This is very close, but I need it to start in ANSI mode 
(--login -i seems to do it in cygwin.bat) so I can color-code
the tail. Is there any way to open bash with -- login -i or
some other way of enabling ANSI in the new terminal?


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