how to get a new window for bash?

[Earnie Boyd]

--- Mike Fabian <mike.fabian@it-mannesmann.de> wrote:
> 
> when I start the cygwin-bash with the cygnus.bat batch file,
> I get a cmd.exe-lookalike window where bash is running in.

The cygnus.bat file should start the bash executable for you.

> 
> After typing `bash  -i', I of course  get a new sub shell  in the same
> window.
> 
> Is  it possible  to make  the sub  shell run  in its  own cmd.exe-like
> window? How to do that?

Yes.  Create a shortcut and modify the properties of the shortcut.

> 
> (I know that I can get a new window using rxvt, but that works only on
> a machine with an X-server.).

You wanna bet. ;^)  Check the archives for the location of an rxvt that uses
the native Windows to operate.
===
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