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RE: Get rid of the bash window
- To: "'Harold Hunt'" <huntharo at msu dot edu>, 'Sébastien Carrillo' <sebastien dot carrillo at auf dot org>
- Subject: RE: Get rid of the bash window
- From: Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 16:59:41 -0400
- Cc: "'cygx'" <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harold Hunt [mailto:huntharo@msu.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 4:58 PM
> To: Sébastien Carrillo
> Cc: cygx
> Subject: RE: Get rid of the bash window
>
>
> Sebastien,
>
> Wait a minute, what the hell is this:
> start /B Xwin -query 10.0.32.252 -nowinkill &
That means bash windows should not close... :-)
Suhaib
>
> Windows NT uses 'start /B' to start a command in the
> background... UNIX shells use the '&' to run a command in the
> background. Here you are using both 'start /B' and '&',
> however, you're running on Windows NT, so you only need
> 'start /B'. I'm not sure how Windows NT is interpreting the
> '&', but you'd better remove it just to check if it makes a
> difference.
>
> Harold
>