[CentOS] How to open several tabs in a gnome-terminal window and run a command in each tab?

Sat Aug 6 01:31:15 UTC 2011
Pete O'Connell <Pedrooconnell at gmail.com>

hi, bash is unavailable to me on my machine unfortunately
 (it is a work machine) the command 
must be sent in a tsch shell. any way to do this in tsch?

Pete