I wrote: >>cygstart /cygdrive/c/windows/system32/cmd.exe >> >>or, if you have that in your $PATH, just >> >>cygstart `which cmd`
As it turns out, just cygstart cmd works on both my installations at work (one 1.5 and one 1.7, both on Vista); on the PC at home (1.7 on XP) I had to specify the full path to cmd.exe. Will have to investigate that when I get home. Barry Buchbinder pointed out: > cygstart has an option to set the working directory. An excellent point! cygstart -d /path/to/directory cmd should do the trick. -- Mark J. Reed <markjr...@gmail.com> -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple