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Re: Starting a Win32 app from inside Cygwin

From: Robert Mecklenburg <mecklen at comcast dot net>
To: "Chris Powell" <powellca at umich dot edu>
Cc: Cygwin Users List <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 20:40:37 -0700
Subject: Re: Starting a Win32 app from inside Cygwin
References: <006b01c40eef$90e95580$6401a8c0@kids> <16480.63191.968000.607858@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <000401c41198$8b3e3eb0$6501a8c0@dads>

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 XP machine editing the file on
CP> the AIX box all when called from a script on the AIX box.  The
CP> user will be viewing an X seesion from the AIX box in cygwin,
CP> execute a script and Word would then open locally.

How about running sshd on your Cygwin box and have your AIX script
run "ssh pc-host 'cygstart foo.doc'"?

Cheers,
-- 
Robert


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References:
- Starting a Win32 app from inside Cygwin
  - From: Chris Powell
- Re: Starting a Win32 app from inside Cygwin
  - From: Robert Mecklenburg

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