Re: Starting a Win32 app from inside Cygwin

2004-03-24 Thread Robert Mecklenburg
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

Re: Starting a Win32 app from inside Cygwin

2004-03-23 Thread Robert Mecklenburg
CP> I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction here, CP> though I'm not even sure this is possible. CP> CP> I currently use cygwin in WinXP to display X session from an AIX CP> machine. This works very well. The software on the AIX box can CP> call a word processor (Uniplex) on the A

Re: Starting a Win32 app from inside Cygwin

2004-03-21 Thread Thorsten Kampe
t; processing with the text file on an NFS. > > It there anyway to do this back to a WinXP box? MS Word is no X client to my knowledge - although answering the "question" in your subject: "Starting a Win32 app from inside Cygwin" is no problem at all - neither GUI nor com

Re: Starting a Win32 app from inside Cygwin

2004-03-20 Thread Gianni Mariani
Chris Powell wrote: I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction here, though I'm not even sure this is possible. I currently use cygwin in WinXP to display X session from an AIX machine. This works very well. The software on the AIX box can call a word processor (Uniplex) on the AIX bo

Starting a Win32 app from inside Cygwin

2004-03-20 Thread Chris Powell
I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction here, though I'm not even sure this is possible. I currently use cygwin in WinXP to display X session from an AIX machine. This works very well. The software on the AIX box can call a word processor (Uniplex) on the AIX box to edit text files