Please forgive my silence and I really do appreciate your attention to my problem.
I originally posted my question on the cygwin-apps list and at Corinna's suggestion I
posted it on this list without realizing that I was not subscribed. I only now have
seen your responses as I searched the archives. I can now provide a specific example
of what I am doing.
On one cygwin installation:
uname -a => CYGWIN_NT-5.1 dac1 1.5.21(0.156/4/2) 2006-07-30 14:21 i686 Cygwin
the following command on the linux client:
ssh wellsr start foo.exe
results in a windows console popping up with the application (foo) running in it.
control immediately returns to the linux console.
The key to this working is the following script ("start")
that runs on the cygwin machine:
#!/usr/bin/bash
#
# There must be no spaces in the title field of the start command
# Otherwise, this seems to work, but I don't know how!
#
#
export XAPPLRESDIR="C:\iss60\app-def"
cmd /c start /I \ $1\ $2 $3 $4 $5 $6
(obviously the last line is the operative one)
on another cygwin installation:
uname => CYGWIN_NT-5.1 wellsr 1.5.24(0.156/4/2) 2007-01-31 10:57 i686 Cygwin
the same sequence launches the application and returns control to the linux
console but in this case there is no console window on the cygwin side. The
application appears on the task list but no window exists.