Re: Starting a Win32 app from inside Cygwin

[Gianni Mariani <gianni at mariani dot ws>]

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 box to edit text files.  What I'd like to do is instead
> of launching the AIX word processor inside of the X session is launch Word
> on the WinXP machine to edit the file out on an NFS.
>
> Another site is currently doing this, but they are all linux and OpenOffice.
> The script on the AIX box does a rsh back to the linux box and opens OO word
> processing with the text file on an NFS.
>
> It there anyway to do this back to a WinXP box?
>
> Any advise is appreciated.
You probably can do that using ssh.

You might be able to run Samba on your AIX machine instead of using 
nfs.  You might also be able to install SFU from MS which is supposed to 
support NFS.

G


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