I am so glad you have built this tool that might solve many peoples' problem! Unfortunately I downloaded it and it does not work :( When I run cygnative.exe from the command line, there is no output of any kind. Nor is there any error message. I suppose it should print the usage without parameter. But no, there is none. I am running it on XP. Does it have any dependency? My PC don't have cygwin. Much thanks for your work!

Thank you. I happen to have a cygwin1.dll. It is from another nice folk who has enhanced cygwin to support unicode filename on Windows. UTF-8 Cygwin http://www.okisoft.co.jp/esc/utf8-cygwin/. cygnative is now working with the DLL! Thank you again!

Cygnative is called from a process (often 'rsync') und that process opens the command line window.  What is your configuration, that cygnative should control the command line window?

Thanks for your explanation, that makes sense.

Unfortunately the calling process is responsible for the window behaviour of the child. May be a child program can minimize it's window later, but the start size is controlled by the parent.

You can modify your code, that the child processes get a minimized window, but I believe in that case you can't use popen().

Thank you very much for 'cygnative'!

I have been struggling with needing to use rsync with plink for years. You solved it. It even works flawlessly with Pageant.

And it works from both the Cygwin bash shell as well as the Windows cmd shell. Excellent.

Michael

Has anyone tried this with the new putty v0.61? Any problems?

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

Thanks,
Michael