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On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 10:15 AM M Douglas McIlroy
<m.douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu> wrote:
> Many thanks for so thoroughly exploring my query.

You are very welcome.

> I have long lived with the limitations of invoking Windows apps from
> Cygwin. Fortuitously I could work around them without resorting to
> "command prompt", though clearly that isn't always possible. And you
> have shed light on the difficulty of the opposite: invoking Cygwin
> apps from Windows.

Were you able to resolve the situation (for instance, by staying
entirely within the Cygwin ecosystem for `git` and `ed`)?