Get rid of the bash window

Suhaib Siddiqi ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com
Wed Oct 24 14:00:00 GMT 2001


> -----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
> 



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