Hi all, does anyone have this problem, or does anyone know how to make it go away? Problem Summary: rxvt pops up new CMD windows for cygwin commands INSIDE batch files, but not the batch file itself. This is annoying, I don't want any windows popping up at all. (output of cygcheck -s at bottom of email FYI) Okay, here are some examples. I start up a bash prompt and a rxvt window (running bash) via the Run dialog box on the Start menu. In bash I do this $ cmd /c ls and, as expected, it just does a directory listing. If I do the same thing in rxvt, the ls command runs in a pop-ed up cmd window (which then closes when ls is done). If I do this in rxvt: $ cmd /c cat I can see it is definitely a CMD window (when I end cat with a ^D the window closes). While the window is up, the shell in rxvt is waiting for cmd to exit (as expected). I initially thought it might be CMD that is popping up the window, so I wrote this .BAT file: --- a.bat --- echo this is the CMD version of ECHO @rem run the CMD command 'dir' dir ------- When I run this in bash, all the output stays in the bash (via ./a.bat) window, and the SAME HAPPENS when I run it in rxtv. rxtv is not poping up a window to run this .BAT file. So, I made this .BAT file that contains a cygwin command: --- b.bat --- echo this is the CMD version of ECHO @rem run the cygwin command 'cat' cat ------ When I run b.bat in bash, it stays in the same window. When I run it in rxvt, a CMD window pops up to run 'cat', but the output of 'echo' is in the rxvt window. Here is the output you see in rxvt: --- output of b.bat in rxvt --- $ ./b.bat e:\opt\cygwin\tmp\z>echo this is the CMD version of ECHO this is the CMD version of ECHO e:\opt\cygwin\tmp\z>cat $ ------ Oi.... this is really annoying me. Anyone have any ideas, or am I stuck with it? Thanks for your time! =Matt PS: thanks very much for making cygwin so KICK ASS! I use it all day, every day! -- output of cygcheck -s -- Cygnus Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Fri May 18 08:31:41 2001 WinNT Ver 5.0 build 2195 Service Pack 2 Path: /cygdrive/e/jdk1.3/bin /usr/bin /cygdrive/c/bin /cygdrive/e/opt/emacs/bin /cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32 /cygdrive/c/WINNT /cygdrive/c/WINNT/System32/Wbem . SysDir: C:\WINNT\System32 WinDir: C:\WINNT PWD = `/tmp' CYGWIN = `title strip_title' TCL_LIBRARY = `E:\opt\wordnet-1.6\LIB\TCL7.6' HOME = `/cygdrive/c/mattq' Use `-r' to scan registry a: fd N/A N/A c: hd NTFS 4000Mb 88% CP CS UN PA FC d: cd N/A N/A e: hd NTFS 5765Mb 85% CP CS UN PA FC l: net NTFS 16996Mb 94% CP CS PA library r: net NTFS 12283Mb 100% CP CS UN PA FC e:\opt\cygwin\bin /usr/bin user binmode e:\opt\cygwin\lib /usr/lib user binmode e:\opt\cygwin / user binmode e:\work /work user textmode c: /cygdrive/c user textmode,noumount e: /cygdrive/e user textmode,noumount l: /cygdrive/l user textmode,noumount r: /cygdrive/r user textmode,noumount Found: e:\opt\cygwin\bin\bash.exe Found: e:\opt\cygwin\bin\cat.exe Found: e:\opt\cygwin\bin\cpp.exe Found: e:\opt\cygwin\bin\find.exe Found: e:\opt\cygwin\bin\gcc.exe Found: e:\opt\cygwin\bin\gdb.exe Found: e:\opt\cygwin\bin\ld.exe Found: e:\opt\cygwin\bin\ls.exe Found: e:\opt\cygwin\bin\make.exe Found: e:\opt\cygwin\bin\sh.exe 56k 2000/12/03 e:\opt\cygwin\bin\cygbz21.0.dll 45k 2001/04/25 e:\opt\cygwin\bin\cygform5.dll 18k 2000/10/23 e:\opt\cygwin\bin\cyggdbm.dll 17k 2001/01/07 e:\opt\cygwin\bin\cyghistory4.dll 14k 2000/10/23 e:\opt\cygwin\bin\cygintl.dll 81k 2001/04/28 e:\opt\cygwin\bin\cygitcl30.dll 35k 2001/04/28 e:\opt\cygwin\bin\cygitk30.dll 45k 2000/10/22 e:\opt\cygwin\bin\cygjbig1.dll 119k 2000/10/23 e:\opt\cygwin\bin\cygjpeg6b.dll 26k 2001/04/25 e:\opt\cygwin\bin\cygmenu5.dll 156k 2001/04/25 e:\opt\cygwin\bin\cygncurses++5.dll 226k 2001/04/25 e:\opt\cygwin\bin\cygncurses5.dll 15k 2001/04/25 e:\opt\cygwin\bin\cygpanel5.dll 163k 2001/05/06 e:\opt\cygwin\bin\cygpng2.dll 108k 2001/01/07 e:\opt\cygwin\bin\cygreadline4.dll 390k 2001/04/28 e:\opt\cygwin\bin\cygtcl80.dll 5k 2001/04/28 e:\opt\cygwin\bin\cygtclpip80.dll 10k 2001/04/28 e:\opt\cygwin\bin\cygtclreg80.dll 243k 2000/10/23 e:\opt\cygwin\bin\cygtiff3.dll 623k 2001/04/28 e:\opt\cygwin\bin\cygtk80.dll 41k 2000/11/20 e:\opt\cygwin\bin\cygXpm-noX4.dll 45k 2000/11/20 e:\opt\cygwin\bin\cygXpm-X4.dll 49k 2001/02/03 e:\opt\cygwin\bin\cygz.dll 631k 2001/04/25 e:\opt\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll Cygwin DLL version info: dll major: 1003 dll minor: 1 dll epoch: 19 dll bad signal mask: 19005 dll old termios: 5 dll malloc env: 28 api major: 0 api minor: 38 shared data: 3 dll identifier: cygwin1 mount registry: 2 cygnus registry name: Cygnus Solutions cygwin registry name: Cygwin program options name: Program Options cygwin mount registry name: mounts v2 cygdrive flags: cygdrive flags cygdrive prefix: cygdrive prefix cygdrive default prefix: build date: Tue Apr 24 20:01:02 EDT 2001 shared id: cygwin1S3 Use -h to see help about each section ---- Matt Quail -- Senior Software Engineer http://www.cortexebusiness.com.au/ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +61 2 9901 6400 -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? 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