is there a package that will remotely run a unix command from a windows box?

[Robin Mordasiewicz]

On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Kenneth Porter wrote:

> --On Wednesday, September 21, 2005 2:24 PM -0400 "G.Wolfe Woodbury" 
> <ggw at wolves.durham.nc.us> wrote:
>
>> Look into:
>> 	Putty
>> 	Cygwin.com
>> 	or
>> 	Microsoft Unix Services for Windows
>> 
>> Personally, I use cygwin and the ssh commands therein.
>
> I use Cygwin for the Gnu developer tools like diff, but I'm still partial to 
> PuTTY for interactive ssh. (A similar tool for file transfer is WinSCP.)
>
> However, the original poster was looking for remote script starting, and for 
> that Cygwin ssh is probably the best choice; more lightweight than PuTTY and 
> can run from an existing Windows console.
>
you can just use rsh. It is a built in windows command line tool.