Re: Opening new cygwin window with arguments

Gary Johnson spocom.com> writes: > > I'm afraid I don't understand the problem. Color _is_ enabled in > the new terminal. > > As an experiment/demonstration, I executed this command in my home > directory which happened to contain a text file, ls.out, in which > the word "out" appeared on a few

Re: Opening new cygwin window with arguments

Gary Johnson 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.b

Opening new cygwin window with arguments

What I want to do is open a new cygwin window with a tail command, so I have the parent process still running, and this runoff process in another window. I've found cygstart, but I can't figure out the syntax to do essentially this: cygstart sh "tail -f foo" Any help would be appreciated -- Prob

Setting up Cygwin for SSH port forwarding?

I'm really sorry if this is available elsewhere, I searched the archives and google and found nothing useful.. I pretty much need step by step instructions for setting up cywin to create a ssh tunnel for using VNC on my home computer from work. Thank you, Jon _