Taylor wrote: > Hmmm. I can't post a response to my own post. >> Well, here's a new thread as a response to my previous thread. >> Looking one last time, I found the answer: >> to launch a cmd.exe window: cmd /c start cmd > to launch a bash.exe window: cmd /c /start bash ------- Didn't see your question, but if you wanted to open a new cmd window with the command in it, you could also use "cygstart cmd.exe" or "cygstart bash.exe" -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple