--- Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu> wrote: > This is a shell programming question (I use the terms "shell" and > "programming" loosely, since you're asking about the cmd.exe shell), and > as such is off-topic for this list. > Since I'm sending this anyway, you *can* do it in bash like this: > DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 ssh -X userid@myserver.com > I believe "set DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 & ssh -X userid@myserver.com" will do > a similar thing in cmd.exe (not quite, but close). Thanks, my actual requirement was to run ssh using ShellExecuteEx The above method means i have run an extra "cmd.exe" which I wanted to avoid. Any way ShellExecuteEx with following argument is working SHELLEXECUTEINFO.lpFile as "cmd.exe" SHELLEXECUTEINFO.lpParameters and as "/c set DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 & ssh -X userid@server" ___________________________________________________________ BT Yahoo! Broadband - Free modem offer, sign up online today and save £80 http://btyahoo.yahoo.co.uk -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/