I use Cygwin to perform the following by executing a single command, go DIR1 DIRN
   1) run MS-DOS *.BAT commands (calls C++ executables to generate HTML files)
   2) tgz compress (tar and gzip) all into 1 file  ...| 
   3) ftp that tgz file                               | handled by g
   4) ssh to server, and untgz all                 ...| 
 See [ CGI, bin and Perl ] above for these and other scripts.
 

 My Cygwin setup lets me click on an icon on desktop, and up comes a REAL xterm.
 The desktop link sets  Target = C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\startxwin.bat
 
 startxwin.bat lists "-multiwindow" by default (else X-manager has to be up)
 >> %RUN% XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error

 and I changed the original "%RUN% xterm -e /usr/bin/bash -l" to 
 >> %RUN% xterm -sb -rightbar -title cygwin -fg white -bg "#00003E" -geometry 112x40 -e /usr/bin/bash -l
 
 See Cygwin screen shots - xterm below for some screenshots of my cygwin xterm